The following is from Just The News.
The Biden administration is touting a decrease in nationwide border encounters, but the numbers are still significantly higher than those under the Trump administration, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Officials reported nearly a quarter of a million illegal immigrant encounters for April 2024, bringing the total number of encounters to more than 1.9 million this fiscal year. With five months left in fiscal year 2024, the current number of encounters is already significantly higher than any complete fiscal year under former President Donald Trump.
Mark Morgan, former Customs and Border Protection acting commissioner, told Just the News, that the Biden administration is “playing the shell game” with illegal immigration statistics.Â
“We have executed the largest surge of removals and disruptive activities against human smuggling networks in the past decade. As a result of this increased enforcement, southwest border encounters have not increased, bucking previous trends,” acting Border Patrol Commissioner Troy Miller said last week.
Although the number of encounters last month – 247,837 – is fewer than the number reported in April 2023 or April 2022, Morgan said last month’s numbers are “still catastrophic” and the comparison should be made to the number of encounters under Trump.
For example, from October 2022 through February 2023, Trump’s final fiscal year before he instituted Title 42, an emergency health order preventing immigration due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there were 281,998 encounters nationwide. During that same time period this fiscal year, encounters rose by nearly 430% to more than 1.4 million.
The total number of migrant encounters for last month included people processed through the CBP One app and other parole systems, Morgan said.
Officials processed 41,000 people last month through the CBP One app, which allows people attempting to enter the U.S. to wait in Mexico until they have an appointment at a set time.
The people processed through CBP One and parole would still otherwise be inadmissible to the U.S., but they were processed in this manner “to avoid bad political optics, and to reverse and to reduce those that were illegally entering in between the ports of entry,” Morgan said. (Continued…)
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