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When President Joe Biden left office on January 20, 2025, multiple government and market data sources show the national average price for regular gasoline was about , with contemporaneous market track...
U.S. government reporting and news coverage for 2025 show historically low land-border encounters and USBP apprehensions: CBP reported southwest border apprehensions of about 8,347 in February 2025 an...
One year ago, in December 2024, the U.S. national average for a gallon of regular gasoline hovered right around the $3 mark—AAA reported $3.02–$3.03 in early December and industry summaries show the n...
Airlines keep multiple records that can show whether a passenger was booked and/or flew: reservation/booking records and ticket receipts, which serve as proof of purchase and are required for name-mat...
In January 2025 the U.S. average retail price for regular motor gasoline was about $3.08 per gallon, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (which reports monthly motor-fuel averages) an...
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...
Available reporting shows that crossings from Canada into the United States rose in the early 2020s but then declined again by 2024–2025 after policy changes and enforcement efforts; U.S. northern-bor...
Official U.S. statistics on “illegal border crossings” come primarily from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) dashboards and monthly releases (which report “encounters” that combine Border Patro...
CBP defines “encounters” to include Border Patrol apprehensions, Office of Field Operations inadmissibles, and (historically) Title 42 expulsions; CBP dashboards present detected activity as these enc...
California’s ports are presented in recent reporting and industry studies as a major fiscal engine—one estimate puts waterborne trade through California ports at $416 billion in 2020 and attributes ro...
The evidence shows a , with multiple official and media accounts reporting dramatically lower apprehension counts and monthly encounters. Government summaries and contemporaneous news reporting conver...