As per government numbers released on Friday, U.S. border agents managed migrants 183,503 times in July as unlawful crossings increased by 33% after falling to a 2-year low in June during record high temperatures.
In July, Border Patrol agents apprehended 132,652 migrants who had entered the country illegally through ports of entry, up from almost 100,000 in June. Additionally, immigration officials in the United States approved a record-high 50,851 immigrants at legitimate ports of entry, mostly thanks to a system that lets those seeking refuge in Mexico use a mobile app to make appointments to enter the country.
The Tucson zone of the Border Patrol, a vast and desolate area that includes much of Arizona’s border alongside Mexico and portions of the Sonoran Desert, wherein temperatures have hit 110 degrees each day this summer, had the sharpest spike in unauthorized crossings. There were roughly 40,000 concerns there in July, a record for the area, according to Border Patrol.