12月，西南边境发生了302，000次遭遇战，标志着最高月总额消息人士告诉ABC新闻。
消息人士强调，这些数字是初步的，可能会有变化。
这些数字是选举年的热门话题，司法部威胁要起诉德克萨斯州通过SB。该法案允许州和地方执法部门逮捕任何他们认为非法入境的人。
DOJ表示，如果得克萨斯州不“暂缓执行SB 4”，它打算在周三起诉
得克萨斯州州长格雷格·阿博特在回应DOJ的诉讼威胁时说，乔·拜登总统“正在摧毁美国”。
“拜登管理。不仅拒绝执行现行的美国移民法，他们现在还想阻止德克萨斯州执行打击非法移民的法律张贴在周四的X日。“我从未见过对美国法治的如此敌意。”
CBP表示，已经向热点地区增派了人员。
CBP在一份声明中说:“遭遇人数继续波动，因为走私者和坏人继续传播谎言，完全无视弱势移民的安全和福祉。”。“我们保持警惕，随时准备确保我们的人员、移民和当地社区的安全，以及我们西南边境的安全。”
众议院议长迈克·约翰逊和其他国会共和党人在诉讼提交的同一天前往边境。国土安全部部长亚历杭德罗·马约尔卡斯将于下周访问边境。
国土安全部前公共事务助理部长玛莎·埃斯皮诺萨(Marsha Espinosa)表示，国会之行对实现边境安全的作用不如满足拜登的资金请求。
“虽然拜登政府一直在努力重建被特朗普摧毁的系统，但最终只有国会才能解决这个问题，”现为Conexión合伙人的埃斯皮诺萨说。“令人沮丧的是，共和党人无视或投票反对反复提出的政策变革和资金要求，这无疑导致了我们今天看到的局面。他们不需要跋涉数千英里去举行新闻发布会，他们所要做的只是走到众议院投票支持DHS，或者考虑拜登三年前发给他们的法案。
拜登派出了国务卿安东尼·布林肯和马约卡斯去墨西哥上周会见了该国总统和他们的墨西哥同行，因为两国都在努力解决非正常移民激增所带来的紧迫问题。
2023年12月6日，国土安全部部长亚历杭德罗·马约卡斯在华盛顿司法部的新闻发布会上与记者交谈，司法部长梅里克·加兰(左)和FB...显示更多undefined
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专家指出，边境移民数量增加的原因有很多。
一名执法消息人士告诉美国广播公司新闻，纯粹受利润驱动的走私者和坏人会使用任何手段将人们赶到北方，包括移民政策可能或感知的变化(就像他们对第42条，政府可能关闭和其他事件所做的那样)，以捕食弱势移民。
此外，一位不同的执法部门消息人士告诉美国广播公司新闻，假期是一个因素，而且有趣的是，关于寻求庇护者用来安排约会的CBP一号应用程序的错误信息已经关闭。消息人士称，DHS今年早些时候建立的帮助处理移民的CBP一号并没有关闭。
据CBP的一位官员说，塞内加尔达喀尔等城市出现的假冒旅行社也在宣传去美国的旅游。他们为塞内加尔人做了免签证去欧洲旅游的广告，如果这些提议是合法的，那么他们将开放去西半球的旅游。这位CBP官员说，这些“旅行社”出售全套服务，将他们与一个走私组织联系起来，然后帮助他们前往边境。
CBP高级官员表示，他们将移民放在偏远地区，以转移CBP的资源。
CBP代理专员特洛伊·米勒在一份声明中说，“这些走私者不顾一切地将移民置于危险之中:在边境的偏远地区，在火车顶上，或者在格兰德河的水中。”。
另一名CBP官员表示，走私者和坏人试图压倒边境巡逻队，以“保证”释放移民。
Migrant encounters along southwest border reach all-time high of 302,000
There were 302,000 encounters along the southwest border in December, marking thehighest monthly totalever recorded, sources told ABC News.
Sources stressed the numbers are preliminary and could change.
The numbers -- a hot-button election year topic -- come as the Justice Department threatened to sue the state of Texas over its passage of SB. 4, which allows for state and local law enforcement to apprehend anyone who they believe is in the country illegally.
DOJ says it intends to sue on Wednesday if Texas doesn’t “forbear enforcement of SB 4.”
President Joe Biden “is destroying America,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in response to the threat of a DOJ lawsuit.
“The Biden Admin. not only refuses to enforce current U.S. immigration laws, they now want to stop Texas from enforcing laws against illegal immigration,” Abbottpostedon X on Thursday. “I’ve never seen such hostility to the rule of law in America.”
CBP says it has surged personnel to hot spots.
"Encounter numbers continue to fluctuate, as smugglers and bad actors continue to spread falsehoods and show complete disregard for the safety and wellbeing of vulnerable migrants," CBP said in a statement. "We remain vigilant and stand ready to ensure safety of our personnel, migrants, and local communities, and the security of our southwest border."
House Speaker Mike Johnson and other congressional Republicans are headed to the border on the same day the lawsuit is intended to be filed. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is set to visit the border next week.
Marsha Espinosa, the former assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, said the congressional trip would do less to achieve border security than fulfilling Biden's funding requests.
“While the Biden administration has worked to rebuild the system that Trump demolished, ultimately only Congress can fix this," Espinosa, now a partner at Conexión, said. "It is beyond frustrating that Republicans have ignored or voted against repeated requests for policy changes and funding, which in no doubt contributed to the situation we see today. They don’t need to travel thousands of miles to hold a press conference when all they have to do is walk to the House floor and vote to fund DHS or consider the bill Biden sent them almost three years ago," she said.
Biden sent Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Mayorkasto Mexicolast week to meet with the country’s president and their Mexican counterparts as both countries struggle to address urgent issues posed by surging irregular migration.
There are many factors as to why there has been an increase in the number of migrants along the border, experts note.
Smugglers and bad actors driven purely by profit will use anything to drive folks north -- including possible or perceived changes in migration policies (just like they did with Title 42, possible government shutdowns, and other events) -- to prey on vulnerable migrants, a law enforcement source told ABC News.
Additionally, a different law enforcement source told ABC News that the holidays play a factor, and anecdotally, there is misinformation about CBP One app, used by asylum seekers to schedule appointments, shutting down. CBP One, established by DHS to help with the processing of migrants earlier this year, is not shutting down, the source said.
Fake travel agencies emerging in cities like Dakar, Senegal, are also advertising travel to the U.S., according to a CBP official. They advertise visa-free travel to Europe for the Senegalese, which would then open up travel to the Western hemisphere if the offers were legitimate. These “travel agencies” sell complete packages to connect them to a smuggling organization that will then facilitate their movement up to the border, the CBP official said.
The top CBP official said they drop migrants off in remote locations to divert CBP resources.
"These smugglers are recklessly putting migrants into harm’s way: in remote locations across the border, onto the tops of trains, or into the waters of the Rio Grande River," Troy Miller, the acting commissioner of CBP, said in a statement.
A different CBP official said smugglers and bad actors attempt to overwhelm border patrol to "guarantee" release of migrants.
