June's drop in Southwest border crossings is no more. In July we were back up to 183,000:
Of these, CBP reports that 132,000 were illegal crossings and 51,000 were requests for asylum. Both are up from June.
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On the minus side, more immigration means that there are more people living in a country where every person has a huge ecological footprint.
On the plus side, the US has built a country which a lot of people vote for, with their feet.
Didn't a judge rule against the Biden's administration policy on asylum that took a little while to put on hold recent?
Month to month changes? Gee, it's almost like it has nothing to do with federal policy.
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Span teriyaki. Spam sushi. Pineapple and spam pizza! Spam kebobs!
Americans from the lower 48 forget that many people remember Spam fondly and enjoy it. Hey, how crazy is it to gulp down chicken nuggets, "buffalo" wings, and cheeseburgers, yet be too "sophisticated" to even try spam?
so true.
also, spam fried rice!
Might be hard to get “true” numbers of illegal border crossings, but this charts “encounters” of Border Patrol with immigrants. Double or half your the enforcement efforts —> more or less encounters.
If efforts remain basically equal, are measured and defined consistently, then “encounters” could be a good enough proxy of illegal immigration.
I keep saying that rising numbers of encounters are evidence of increasing enforcement; this makes conservative heads explode, as they insist that rising numbers of encounters are evidence of "open borders".
Maybe one day one of Kevin's charts, instead of looking at the particular administration was in charge, could put things like "total collapse of Honduran economy" or whatever on there.
The US tends to behave as if everything is something to do with us, when, as here, I can't think of a better situation which illustrates that it is not "all about us."
For example, post NAFTA non documented border crossings from, ya know, Mexico, are way down.