Roughly 8.5 million migrants were encountered along the U.S.-Mexico border during the Biden-Harris White House’s four fiscal years, making the true cost of the border crisis under the administration more clear.
In September, the final month of fiscal year 2024, 101,790 migrants were encountered at the southern border. According to The data was released by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Tuesday. These numbers include both immigrants who crossed the southern border illegally and those who presented themselves at ports of entry. (Related: Hospitals report rapid increase in migrants needing treatment after falling off border wall)
Approximately 2.1 million migrants were encountered along the southern border in fiscal year 2024, according to CBP data. The final numbers bring the total number of migrants encountered between the United States and Mexico under the Biden-Harris administration to about 8.5 million.
In fiscal 2024, there were more than 1.5 million encounters by border patrol agents between ports of entry (also known as illegal border crossings). This number is down from the approximately 2 million and 2.2 million illegal border crossings seen at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2024. According to the data, they are scheduled for 2023 and 2022, respectively.
Top Shot – A group of Central American migrants, mostly Hondurans, scale the border fence between Mexico and the United States near the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, on November 25, 2018. , others try to knock down the border fence. (Photo credit: Pedro PARDO/AFP) (Photo credit: PEDRO PARDO/AFP, Getty Images)
The September data released by CBP will be the latest border statistics for the Biden-Harris administration, which oversaw an unprecedented border crisis while occupying the White House.
“You wouldn’t know it from the way President Biden, his ‘border czar,’ Vice President Harris, and their champions in the media are talking about these numbers, but this year has seen unacceptable alien encounters. “This was the second-worst year on record for this,” said Mark Greene, chairman of the House Committee on Land. Chief said on Tuesday. “This year was the worst year in terms of official games.” (Related: Illegal immigrant released in New York for attempted murder arrested again on charges of trafficking minors)
“Every day, Americans experience the effects of an unrestricted influx of unacceptable foreign nationals into their communities,” Green continued. “As a country, we simply cannot continue like this. These open border policies have destroyed our safety, security, and sovereignty.”
The new data does not include the roughly 30,000 immigrants who enter the country each month through the hotly debated parole program known as CHNV. About 500,000 Since the program’s inception, Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans have entered the United States.
President Joe Biden in June aimed to control the number of daily illegal border crossings as illegal border encounters peaked and polls showed voters dissatisfied with the president’s handling of the crisis. issued a presidential order. The outgoing president doubled down on the order in September by extending the number of days it takes for a bill to pass a certain threshold and be overridden.
Despite these election-year efforts, Border Patrol unions formally endorsed former President Donald Trump on October 13, with the president of the National Border Patrol Council saying at a rally that if Vice President Kamala acted, he would The community will “go to hell,” he said. win the presidential election.
The White House defended the latest border numbers in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Illegal border crossings have decreased by more than 55% since the President announced new executive actions to secure the border on June 4, according to data released today by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “This is the lowest level in more than four years,” the spokesperson said. he said on Tuesday. “Encounter rates between ports of entry have decreased compared to the last months of the previous administration.”
“The Biden-Harris administration has worked for months with a bipartisan group of senators to create a historic bipartisan border security agreement that will add thousands of front-line personnel to the border. But Congressional Republicans twice voted against that deal, proving they’re safer “more interested in playing cynical politics than securing our borders,” the statement read. continued. “While the Biden-Harris administration has taken effective action, Republican officials continue to do nothing.”
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