Is the “total” number down 20K?
Or - did 20K more illegals figure out how to evade the Border Patrol?
Or - did Border Patrol let 20K illegals sneak by because there is no place to house them?
Oh, don’t be such a pessimist.
Enforced discouragement works, every time it is tried. Fewer people all the time are making the trek the length of Mexico to get to the US border, and in fact, Mexico is accepting many more of these “refugees”, many of whom are in no real danger in their home countries, but find a more positive reception in a country that speaks a similar language and has similar customs.
Nancy is deeply troubled.
In my area it is pretty obvious when they get by, since we see most of them as they travel through- which we report of course so most don’t really get away here, there are too many miles from the border to civilization here so no way to blend in. We have not seen any what we call stragglers, none since the Mexican Military started working the area S. of the border here. Which is pretty unusual for us to not see any illegals.
I can’t speak for other areas of course.