The Border Patrol released its October numbers this week, and they're down a bit from last month's record high:
Border encounters in October were up 4% from last year and down 11% (to 240,000) compared to last month. About 50,000 of these were legal asylum requests while the rest were illegal crossings between ports of entry.
Last month CBP said it had "removed or returned" 300,000 individuals since May. This month the number is 350,000, which means they removed about 50,000 individuals in October. Probably another 30,000 or so were deported via court proceedings. This suggests that the unauthorized immigrant population in the US increased by about 160,000 in October.
Doesn’t account for undocumented immigrants returning voluntarily:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/us/undocumented-immigrants-exodus-us.html
Shouldn't there be a line for "total collapse of Venezuelan economy" rather than Biden Inauguration? Or something?
I mean, as if the number of people walking through Mexico is directly caused by whatever Kevin blogs about.
As Americans, we just cannot help but think the world completely revolves around us, eh?
That and...
Covid gave Trump cover for the "remain in Mexico" policy--so large encampments on our border. The covid emergency ended after Biden took office, I believe it was by court order, so migrants could not just be dumped back into Mexico anymore--they had to be processed. Of course that process was broken by Trump, so it can't handle what it should and it's being overwhelmed by the increase in numbers we're seeing now. Biden has fixed things a bit, but we'll be in crises mode until the build up of migrants in Mexico work their way through the system.
Encounters? Why are there any encounters at all? I have been assured by every right-winger that Biden had opened the border to all comers. They need only pause briefly to receive their cash & free stuff.
Just more of the cognitive dissonance that increasingly rules our government and news media. Somehow the borders are both wide open and yet government personnel just keep wandering around along it encountering migrants, almost like the government personnel are assigned to be there (and thus the border isn't actually "wide open").
You aren't supposed to think when you line up at the news media trough every night, and most Americans happily comply with those expectations.