Well...not so fast. Not to mention that you are playing with the numbers..but a large proportion of illegals are not from Mexico at all. This link has all the facts..so I can be sure that you'll not read it...LOL! But the Right counts the same subject 2 or three times...to get their inflated number. It surprises me..because the real numbers are certainly bad enough to support their positions..but I guess one requires much hyperbole when politicking~
BTW..not sure where all this suffering by US citizens is taking place...but me and mine are doing quite well..as is just about everyone here in my lil town.
Encounters on the southern border of those trying to enter the U.S. without authorization have gone up significantly under President Joe Biden. Government statistics show that in the initial processing of millions of encounters, 2.5 million people have been released into the U.S. and 2.8 million...
www.factcheck.org
The figures used by Haley, DeSantis and Cotton — 8 million or 10 million — are totals of all migrant encounters at the border plus gotaways, and, in Cotton’s case, encounters at the northern border, coastal borders and airports. Cotton’s press secretary, Patrick McCann, told us that those figures showed the senator was correct to say that number “crossed into the country.” But these claims ignore that DHS statistics show 2.8 million of the encounters at the southern border alone resulted in a removal or expulsion directly from CBP custody, and all of the rest of the migrants encountered are not simply released.
Most of those removals – nearly 2.5 million — were immediate expulsions under Title 4
Total DHS repatriations through October amounted to 3.7 million, a figure that includes the 2.8 million removals directly from CBP, as well as removals by ICE. CBP operates at the border – at ports of entry and between them — while ICE “is responsible for interior enforcement and for detention and removal operations,” DHS explains.
“The majority of all individuals encountered at the southwest border over the past three years have been removed, returned, or expelled,” a DHS official told us. The total DHS repatriations of 3.7 million would support that. The figure is 57% of the 6.5 million total encounters. The one caveat is that the total repatriations could include some migrants who were apprehended crossing the border some time ago and later were arrested and removed by ICE.