The Biden administration is touting a decrease in nationwide border encounters, but the numbers are still significantly higher than those under the Trump administration, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Officials reported nearly a quarter of a million illegal immigrant encounters for April 2024, bringing the total number of encounters to more than 1.9 million this fiscal year. With five months left in fiscal year 2024, the current number of encounters is already significantly higher than any complete fiscal year under former President Donald Trump.
Mark Morgan, former Customs and Border Protection acting commissioner, told Just the News, that the Biden administration is "playing the shell game" with illegal immigration statistics.
"We have executed the largest surge of removals and disruptive activities against human smuggling networks in the past decade. As a result of this increased enforcement, southwest border encounters have not increased, bucking previous trends," acting Border Patrol Commissioner Troy Miller said last week.
