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Yes — facilities with chain‑link enclosures often described as “cages” were used to hold migrant children under the Obama administration, especially during the 2014 surge; those same types of enclosur...
Border encounters during the Biden presidency rose to multi-year highs through 2022–2023 (peaking in December 2023 at nearly 250,000 encounters in a month) and then fell sharply after policy changes i...
The reporting contains multiple, conflicting tallies: a Biden-era total of hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children crossing since 2019 is widely cited, while the Trump administration and allie...
Estimates of the number of undocumented (unauthorized) immigrants in the U.S. rose sharply after 2020, with Pew Research Center reporting a jump from roughly 10.5 million in 2021 to a record 14 millio...
The most direct CBP figures available for Fiscal Years 2021–2024 report of 1,956,519 in FY2021, 2,766,582 in FY2022, 3,201,144 in FY2023, and 2,901,142 in FY2024; these are the annual encounter counts...
By mid‑2025 detected unauthorized crossings at the U.S.–Mexico border dropped sharply from 2024 levels — monthly sector totals fell by more than 80–90% in some months and the Border Patrol recorded ro...
Federal spending on U.S.–Mexico border wall projects is reported in widely varying totals depending on which years, accounts and proposals are included: contemporaneous reporting and government estima...
The Biden administration began 2021 promising a restoration of asylum access but has since implemented a series of rules and proposals that significantly tighten eligibility and accelerate removal, cu...
Photographs showing women with clipboards talking to migrants at the border wall and then helping them into vans can depict a range of actors and activities — from humanitarian volunteers, shelter or ...
In 2025 unauthorized immigrants remain concentrated in a small set of large metropolitan areas—above all the New York and Los Angeles metros—and are still disproportionately located in a handful of hi...
CBP encounter data show extremely high annual totals in early Biden years and a sharp decline by 2024–2025: CBP reported about 1.66 million Border Patrol encounters at the U.S.-Mexico (southwest) bord...
The current U.S. immigration regime affecting border crossings is a patchwork of statutory law, recent executive actions, and administrative rules that together tighten asylum eligibility, expand enfo...
By most official counts used by the U.S. government before January 20, 2025, there were roughly 719–744 miles of installed barrier described as “primary” and “secondary” fencing along the U.S.–Mexico ...
Estimates of how many migrant children were separated under the Trump administration’s “zero‑tolerance” policy vary by source — official agency tallies and later government reviews and reporting put t...
As of 2025, CBP’s baseline "existing barrier (prior to 1/20/2025)" consisted of roughly 702 miles of primary wall and about 76 miles of secondary wall; since January 20, 2025 the agency has been updat...
Monthly U.S.–Mexico border “encounters” were far higher on average during the Biden presidency than during the Trump presidencies, with CBP recording roughly 11 million encounters over Biden’s four ye...
Title 42 allowed roughly 2.8 million Border Patrol expulsions from March 2020 through its end in May 2023, dramatically reducing formal Title 8 processing during that period . The Biden administration...
Since 2010 the best-available estimates show the U.S. undocumented (unauthorized) population was roughly stable to slightly down in the 2010s, rose again after 2020, and by mid‑2023 many researchers p...
Coverage shows the U.S.–Mexico border barrier is neither continuous nor static: roughly 702 miles of “primary” barrier existed prior to Jan. 20, 2025, with many gaps, new state- and federal-funded pro...
The most reliable, directly reported figure for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Border Patrol apprehensions between ports of entry is , a 25% decline from FY2023’s 2,045,838, as shown in CBP’s weekly Border Upd...