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Originally Posted by Pete F.
Customs and Border Protection statistics show that the number of "encounters" at the southwest land border has increased every month since April 2020, when the number fell to 17,106 amid the pandemic. The number was 74,018 in December.
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"Encounters" have always occurred but reached a dramatic low in April 2020. Then gradually rose to more usual numbers and really started to explode in January to 78,442, then to 100,441 in February (a huge 28% jump in one month), and still growing in March. I don't doubt that Biden's withdrawal From Trump policies and the implicit green light to come on in was a direct cause.
Of course, "encounters" don't count the large number of all those who have not been caught or who did not present themselves at ports of entry.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas's public statement admitted that the number of migrants apprehended at the United States’ southern border is on track to hit a two-decade high, but was otherwise very misleading or untrue in opinion and fact, as disputed in this rebuttal:
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/03/...border-crisis/