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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...
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...
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” ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Eric Swalwell has been an active national-security voice in Congress — serving on Homeland Security subcommittees, pressing cybersecurity agencies like CISA, and coauthoring public statements on the N...
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...
Annual southwest border “encounters” have swung dramatically since 1990, with peaks above 1.6 million in FY1986 and FY2000 and a modern-era high of about 1.66 million in FY2021, followed by even large...
DHS/CBP do not publish a single official “successful unauthorized entries” count for 2017–2020; instead they publish encounter and apprehension data from which outside analysts have estimated successf...
Available public records and reporting show large numbers of noncitizens with criminal convictions or pending charges appear on ICE’s national and non‑detained dockets, but precise yearly counts of “d...
Available reporting shows undocumented (unauthorized) immigrants are broadly excluded from most federal cash, SNAP, and regular Medicaid programs, though they can access limited emergency and state-fu...
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...
International "push" factors — regional violence, state failure, and climate-driven economic shocks — combined with "pull" signals such as U.S. labor demand and perceived enforcement gaps to drive maj...