U.S. authorities said Monday that they stopped migrants more than 234,000 times in April, one of the highest marks in decades as the Biden administration prepares to lift pandemic-era restrictions on claiming asylum.U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials made 234,088 stops on the Mexican border last month, a 5.8% increase from 221,303 in March, according to a Justice Department filing in a lawsuit filed by and .The figure is a 22-year high and surpassed the previous high of Biden's presidency of 209,906 set in March, and the highest level since March 2000, when it reached 220,063.
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