Arrests for illegal border crossings is at a record number, but that is a very different thing from the number of illegal immigrants in the USA. See https://apn

Arrests for illegal border crossings is at a record number, but that is a very different thing from the number of illegal immigrants in the USA. See https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-crossings-mexico-biden-18ac91ef502e0c5433f74de6cc629b32 https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-crossings-mexi... You can get more arrests simply by catching more people crossing the border with more border officers or better technology. Also, coyotes are using swarming techniques now, which means they expect a certain number of migrants are going to get caught, but the border patrol will be overwhelmed and miss the rest (pay extra to be in “group B”).