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So exactly what Biden/Mayorkas did at the DHS when they simply decided to stop doing their jobs and let millions of illegals in?



I'm not seeing that in either the deportation/removal rates, nor the encounters rate. Which time period 2021-2024 should I be looking at to see this? I'm looking only at annual rates, not month by month.


It wouldn't show up in deportation rates because they're not talking about deportation, they're talking about people illegally entering the country. That administration was enabling it through the CBP One app, up to some limit per day (which I remember being 2000 but am not sure that's right).

https://homeland.house.gov/2024/10/24/startling-stats-factsh...

> However, the end result is the same—tens of thousands of inadmissible aliens being released into the interior every month. This is evident through the number of appointments scheduled through the CBP One mass-parole program, which skyrocketed to more than 852,000 since January 2023.

Also there is a massive spike in encounters during those years: https://ohss.dhs.gov/khsm/cbp-encounters


Spike in encounters, and spike in deportations, no? I’d expect to see both drop, but certainly deportations, if what was claimed had happened, but I’m not seeing it.

[edit] if the stopped-doing-their-job thing had happened, not CBP One, I’m aware of that.




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