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The impact of border encounters and enforcement on the estimated number of unauthorized immigrants in the US.
Estimates vary depending on the measure: "encounters" at the border number in the millions (for example, roughly from Feb. 2021–Sept. 2024) while government processing produced roughly 2.5 million rel...
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 ...
There is no authoritative, published count of the net number of undocumented immigrants who “came in” during Donald Trump’s first term; government statistics track encounters, apprehensions and remova...
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...
"Encounters" are administrative events recorded by Customs and Border Protection when someone is apprehended, found inadmissible at a port of entry, or expelled under special authorities; they do not ...
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...