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Except that you’re not seeing “record #’s flooding in”. The numbers are down. Way down. Since the Biden administration ended Title 42, Illegal border crossings have dropped by 89%.
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How and Why Illegal Border Crossings Have Dropped So Dramatically (Published 2023)
The Biden administration’s new asylum policy, which a judge blocked this week, has contributed to a plunge in illegal border crossings at the southern U.S. border.www.nytimes.com
Trump’s policy of closing the border drove illegal crossings up. You can’t claim refugee status unless you’re standing on US soil. Refugees had to cross the border illegally in order to claim refugee status.
When Trump took office in 2017 border crossings were at the lowest level in 50 years. How could he justify building his stupid wall if the Democrats’ policy of prosecuting employers was working. People didn’t jump the border if there were no jobs waiting for them. And employers wouldn’t hire them with the IRS performing audit on their employees documentation.
Trump forced refugee claimants to cross illegally when he first metered the numbers coming in and then closed the border under Title 42. He also ceased all prosecution of employers, raiding their plants and locking up the hundreds of illegals working there, but no charges whatsoever on the employers.
By 2019, Trump had his number illegal border crossing numbers up so high that he declared a national emergency at the southern border in order to build his stupid wall.
Biden started prosecuting employers, rebuilt the refugee support system at the southern border that Trump had dismantled, and set up an immigrant and refugee program online to help those seeking to enter the country, to do so, in an orderly, legal manner. 89% reduction in illegal border crossing.
Imagine that!!!
As I pointed out to you in another thread, your data is behind. The July figures are in, and the border invasion is increasing again.
Migrant Crossings on the Rise Again at U.S. Border
Illegal crossings along the U.S. Southwestern border are rising fast just three months after the Biden administration tightened immigration policy, with Border Patrol arrests surging in remote desert areas.
Migrants trying to enter the U.S. illegally are braving record-high temperatures, which is making their journeys riskier and requiring more rescues by U.S. and Mexican border authorities.
Migrant Crossings on the Rise Again at U.S. Border
Authorities say human smugglers are guiding migrants to some of the hottest and most isolated stretches of the Arizona desert as temperatures soar.