June Border Data Show That the Biden Administration is Hiding Illegal Migration, Not Stopping It

Article author: 
Ira Mehlman
Article publisher: 
FAIR
Article date: 
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Article category: 
National Issues
Medium
Article Body: 

Washington, D.C.) —The following statements were issued by Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), in response to the June border encounter data released by Customs and Border Protection:

“Encounters of illegal migrants by the Border Patrol at the Southwest Border were down in June, but only because the Biden administration has invented other means of allowing large numbers of inadmissible aliens to enter the country. While Customs and Border Protection data highlights the decline in the number of people entering between ports of entry along the southern border, the number of encounters nationwide remained an unacceptably high 211,575 last month, or more than 7,000 per day. . . .