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Did Biden-Harris Spend a Billion FEMA Dollars on Migrants?
Despite some questionable fact-checking by major media outlets, it’s true.
In 2017, the U.S. Border Patrol reported 526,901 encounters at the border. Over the past 18 months, 5,628,745 encounters have been reported.
Part of the problem is that the full scope of the immigration crisis at the U.S. southern border is not being properly covered by major press outlets.
The numbers are impossible to ignore or explain away.
Total CBP Enforcement Encounters 2017–2024
2017: 526,901
2018: 683,178
2019: 1,148,024
2020: 646,822
2021: 1,956,519
2022: 2,766,582
2023: 3,201,144
2024: 2,427,601
No doubt seeing the situation as an embarrassing potential stumbling block for vulnerable Democrats in an election year, progressive journalists seem strangely reluctant to discuss the matter.
Even as polling has revealed immigration and border concerns is rising higher and higher on the list of things American voters care about, the subject has remained strangely off limits.