Record high migrant detentions at US-Mexico border
More than 1.7 million migrants were stopped in the past year, including 145,000 children. …
The detention numbers for the 2021 fiscal year, which ended in September, are the highest since 2000. That year, more than 1.6 million migrants were held at the US-Mexico border. But the number has not reached 1.7 million since US authorities first began tracking such entries in the 1960s.