Posted on 10/26/2024 8:12:00 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris dealt with questions on border security during her CNN Town Hall this week, responding to arguments that the Biden administration had not acted quickly enough to deal with undocumented migrants entering the U.S.
While GOP presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump has described the administration's actions as a failure, figures from the last four months have shown a steady and significant reduction in the number of apprehensions along the U.S. border with Mexico.
Harris told CNN's Anderson Cooper that numbers had more than halved in recent months, pointing to newly released statistics.
The Claim
During a CNN Town Hall on October 23, Harris claimed that the Biden administration had more than halved the "flow of immigration" into the U.S.
"And as of today, we have cut the flow of immigration by over half," Harris said.
The Facts
Harris made a claim similar to this during her 60 Minutes interview, saying that the flow of immigration had halved, updating that figure to "more than halved" during the CNN Town Hall.
The vice president had been asked by Cooper why the administration had not implemented actions to tackle migration sooner. More specifically, Cooper asked why it had not sooner implemented an order made in June barring migrants who crossed the southern border unlawfully from receiving asylum......
The Ruling
True.
Data for September 2024 shows a 54 percent reduction in the number of encounters along the southwest border between ports of entry, compared to May 2024, a month before the Biden administration implemented new restrictions on migrants claiming asylum.
The reduction in encounters is even larger when compared to data from September 2023.
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Right, that half they are talking about never saw the border. They got air lifted right into the US proper
“says encounters’....so how many are NOT being reported. They’re such liars.
When you quadruple (or more) the flow, a cut in half (even IF true) is hardly an accomplishment.
“Data for September 2024 shows a 54 percent reduction in the number of encounters...”
1. Compared to May, 2024.
2. ENCOUNTERS
Easy to accomplish if you just tell the BP to ease up and maybe even take off some of those accumulated days-off.
It’s all smoke and mirrors. And, most sadly, the GOPe is just the other side of the Dhimmicrap coin.
Down to 25,000/day?
Right.
Flow goes from 1 under Trump to 10 under Biden.
Biden operates at 10 for three full years, letting in 10 to 20 million.
Bide cut flow fro 10 to 5 at the last minute.
Then they brag “Look how great we are! We cut flow by 50%.”
Such patent BS.
It’s the exact same lame argument they made for inflation. The vast damage was done, then they crow about reducing the RATE of inflation.
Do people really out undrstandthis?
She means halved the reporting of border invaders.
Sounds like somebody been hittin’ da sauce.
EXACTLY
Liar.
SOMEONE remind me : HOW MANY INVADERS ARE ON THE MARCH NORTH IN THE CURRENT CARAVAN???
Yeah, that’s because Mexico and the rest of the world is almost empty. So naturally the flow rate drops. Morons
They only imported half of the illegals they expected to show up. They changed that to mean a reduction in half they made happen!
To Canada? Naw, Canada did that on their own.
Quadrupling then halving is called doubling.
At least 20 million…. And flights are coming in daily.
Maybe the free apartments in Colorado don’t look quite so good any more, or the increase in organized crime scared them off./sarc
If 100 were encountered at the border and let in, that's bad. If 46 are encountered at the border and 54 go to the port of entry and all 100 are let in, somehow that's better?
they have changed tactics and now supplement the border crossings by a massive influx of illegal aliens coming by air into small airports all over the nation where there are no INS or Border Patrol on site.
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