Encounters include those now legally seeking asylum, so when encounters are said to be down, that INCLUDES BOTH illegal crosses and those refugee seekers from the 4 countries.
It was mentioned in a post that it could be that now that these migrants from those 4 countries can now enter through other means like airports, that encounters at the Border has gone way down, but other port of entries for these specific migrants have gone up by the difference in the drop at the border?
But if the above truly is the case and overall total southern border encounters are down the 46% claimed by border patrol,
That is Good! Regardless if they are flying in elsewhere, because this relieves the STRESS at the border with border Patrol and all the asylum seeker border crossers, giving them ability to focus more on drug and human, smugglers and the gang members that could be trying to cross.