United States - Border data shows migration shifts

Migrants and refugees from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua have changed the narrative at the border.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released new data on southwest border encounters. CBP’s migrant encounters reached 2 million between October 2021 and the end of August 2022, a fiscal year record. In August, CBP had 157,921 unique encounters (CBP made contact with 157,921 individual people) and 203,598 total encounters. As WOLA notes, rapid expulsion…