President Joe Biden suggests they need billions in additional funding in hopes to secure the border. He suggests this is because of the technology they would need to deal with. It's not very clear what technology he's talking about. AP reported on some illegal border crossing numbers for July. That political news article said:
Arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. border from Mexico soared 33% from June to July, according to U.S. government figures released Friday, reversing course after a plunge that followed the introduction of new asylum restrictions in May.
President Joe Biden’s administration insisted that its carrot-and-stick approach of expanding legal routes while imposing more punitive measures on those who enter illegally is working. It noted that illegal crossings were still down 27% from July 2022 and were well below the days that preceded the new immigrations rules.
The increase from June to July was driven by a larger presence of families traveling with children — nearly doubling to 60,161 arrests.
