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United States law enforcement agents encountered more than 100,000 migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in February, which is the highest monthly total since a historic surge in mid-2019 and evidence of a mounting crisis, despite the current administration's hesitancy to characterize it as such.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported Wednesday that agents arrested and encountered a total of 100,441 non-citizens, nearly triple the number of encounters reported in February, 2019.

The month-to-month rise from January to February represents a whopping increase of 28%.

Nearly 9,500 of those migrants were unaccompanied minors, the first time that number has exceeded 6,000 since June of 2019 (the average number of unaccompanied children detained at the border each month in 2020 was well below 3,000).

Forbes has reached out to the Biden Administration for comment but did not immediately get a response.

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