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The Elephant at the Border
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.
“Illegal border crossings surpass 12.5 million since Biden-Harris took office, most in US history,” reported Bethany Blankley for Just the News on August 17, 2024.
“U.S. Customs and Border Protection released monthly border apprehension data on Friday, saying, ‘statistics show lowest southwest border encounters in nearly four years,’” prefaced Blankley. “CBP also claimed illegal border crossings were down by 34% from June to July, and the drop is due to a presidential proclamation issued in June.”
“Despite these claims, the total number of apprehended illegal border crossers surpassed 10.5 million in July with two months left in the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30,” Blankley revealed. “That number excludes 2 million gotaways, those who illegally entered and evaded capture, bringing the total number to more than 12.5 million.”
No other presidential administration in U.S. history has ever reported even a fraction of 12.5 million in one term, let alone multiple terms combined,” she concluded.
The numbers are impossible to ignore or explain away.