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The question has no single numeric answer because "" can mean different things: CBP/Border Patrol , people released into to await proceedings, formal admissions, /expulsions, or the net change in the ...
U.S. border “encounters” rose sharply during the Biden years, peaking in 2023 at roughly 3.2 million CBP-recorded encounters nationwide and roughly 3 million+ at the southern border in recent peak yea...
Kristi Noem told Congress DHS “has not deported U.S. citizens or military veterans,” but multiple news outlets and congressional inquiries say veterans have been detained, deported or pressured to sel...
President Biden’s record on the southern border is contested: Republican officials and conservative organizations say his early policy reversals and enforcement memos loosened deterrence and “fueled” ...
The claim that President Biden "opened the floodgates" and allowed 20 million illegal immigrants into the United States is not supported by available enforcement and demographic data. Official Customs...
Critics and watchdogs say the Biden administration both strengthened some civil liberties and took or defended actions others view as undermining them; complaints focus on surveillance law defense, pa...
As of October 2025, there is reported for “Trump’s border wall project”; recent federal contract awards and congressional proposals provide partial, sometimes overlapping dollar figures that leave the...
Available sources do not provide a single, consistent annual count labelled “illegal border crossings” for each calendar year 2021–2024; reporting instead uses related measures—CBP “encounters,” Borde...
and publish —not a definitive tally of unique individuals—so the official public record does not provide a clear number of distinct people who crossed the . Independent reporting and oversight documen...
Federal sources and reporting show Congress and the White House committed roughly $46–46.55 billion in 2025 legislation (the One Big Beautiful Bill / reconciliation package) for “Smart Wall” / border ...
Federal appropriations and administrative actions for the U.S.–Mexico border barrier have totaled billions, but dollars and projects vary by year and administration: GAO reporting shows DHS obligated ...
Yes — did visit the in late September 2024, traveling to , for what reporters described as a trip to project a tougher stance on migration and to blunt ahead of the election . The trip was billed as h...
There is no single, uncontested tally of how many people “came into” the United States illegally during the Biden administration because agencies and analysts report different metrics (encounters, got...
Available reporting frames the question in terms of "encounters" — events when U.S. authorities apprehend, expel or deny entry to someone — rather than unique people. Most reputable tallies show rough...
The question “How many illegal immigrants came into the U.S. under Joe Biden’s presidency?” has no single, definitive figure because available measures report : population estimates of unauthorized im...
The available reporting establishes that the FBI opened an undercover sting that recorded Tom Homan accepting $50,000 in cash from agents posing as businesspeople and that the probe was later closed w...
President Biden has been accused by critics of using an "open borders" approach to manipulate elections by enabling large numbers of noncitizens to enter the United States and, eventually, vote. The a...
From 2020 through 2024 from pandemic-constrained lows into a multifaceted surge driven by policy changes, new and changing migration composition, followed by a policy-and-enforcement reaction that pus...
reports encounter totals—10.8 million “encounters” nationwide since the start of Fiscal Year (FY) 2021—but does not publish a single, definitive cumulative figure for the number of who unlawfully ente...
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recorded more than 10.8 million “encounters” nationwide from the start of Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 through the end of FY2024, with over 8.7 million of those at the Sou...