Joe Biden Claims Migration Numbers ‘Came Way Down’ After 2021

President Joe Biden, 82, claimed that the number of illegal immigrants has “significantly decreased” since taking office.

Biden, who Special Counsel Robert Hur characterized as an elderly man with a poor memory, appears to have misremembered immigration statistics.

vox reported:

During President Joe Biden's first three years in office, the number of unauthorized crossings at the U.S. southern border increased.

Although it is now dropping sharply in the first half of 2024, it is still significantly higher than it was in the decade before Biden took office.

That's the basic numerical trend, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) numbers. The extent to which Biden's policies are contributing to this trend is more difficult to determine and is likely to be a key issue in this Thursday's debate with Donald Trump.

Under the Biden-Harris administration, the southern border remained open.

• Nearly 2 million known holidays avoided U.S. Border Patrol under the Biden-Harris administration, according to numbers released in April by Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee.
• Data released by House Republicans shows the administration has targeted up to 650,000 criminal immigrants and suspects, including at least 13,099 convicted murderers and 222,141 immigrants facing criminal charges. are allowed to roam American communities.
• of illegal immigrant population Pew Research Center estimates released in July put the U.S. population at 11 million in 2022, but critics estimate the number will be much higher.

Biden appeared to contradict official numbers while making off-script statements at the State Department.

“When I became president, that number went down significantly,” Biden claimed. “There was a situation where I pushed very hard for a bipartisan agreement to send more people to the border and more secret agents. And guess what? He [Trump] I said on the phone, “Please stop, please stop trying to make me look bad.''