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The Department of Homeland Security's border enforcement gains
Across the Biden presidency, U.S. government sources and analysts consistently report millions of “encounters” at the border — not unique people — with totals ranging from roughly 9 million to more th...
Yes — ICE is funded by taxpayer dollars appropriated by Congress: its budgets and large new reconciliation appropriations are federal spending paid from public funds, and recent legislation massively ...
DHS distinguishes “removals” (formal orders carrying administrative penalties) from “returns” (departures not pursuant to removal orders) and also counts expulsions under some authorities like Title 4...
Title 42 expulsions — pandemic-era rapid expulsions at the border — accounted for the bulk of border departures recorded during March 2020–May 2023 and therefore are a large component of DHS’s “repatr...
Parole programs and the way were counted between 2023 and 2024 materially raised official and academic estimates of the unauthorized-immigrant population by adding large numbers of people who were enc...
The administration and allied outlets point to measurable wins ’s 2024 reelection—faster post‑pandemic job recovery, sharp drops in border apprehensions, fresh private AI investment, and a boost in Re...
The best public tally of people encountered trying to cross the border illegally during the period covering the end of 2016 through the end of 2020 is found in “encounters” (apprehensions and expulsio...
’s offhand line about “” appears to be a sweeping rhetorical claim aimed at touting gains in investment, business activity and that his administration highlights, even as independent polls and watchdo...
The number of people in the United States without authorization during the Trump administration is not a single settled figure in the public record; estimates and counts vary by metric — apprehensions...