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    1 year ago

    How Many Migrants Are Crossing the Border

    As part of the current fiscal year that began in October, there were 309,114 migrant encounters that month, 308,669 in November and 371,036 in December. In December, about 300,000 migrants—nearly 10,000 per day—came into the U.S. through Mexico, including about 250,000 between ports of entry, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. Federal border agents encountered about 2.5 million migrants in total last year, surpassing the previous record high from the year before.

    Immigrant: Hello I’d like to enter the country with no visa, passport, or other documentation.

    Border guard: I’m sorry you can’t do that, you’ll have to go back.

    Headline: Obama deported 3.1 Million immigrants!

    Lemmy: How terrible Democrats sent ICE gestapo to round up 3 million hard working taxpayers from their homes and workplace!

    • aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him)@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      Snopes rates the claim “US deported more than 3M people during Obama presidency. Most did not have chance to plead case in court” as mostly true. I truly do not understand how your characterization of these deportations follows from the link you posted and your quote from it.