We Said
- Apr 6, 2024 SAY WHAT? USA Today Claims Biden Has ‘Clamped Down on Unauthorized Border Crossings’
They Said
- June 26, 2024 Unauthorized migrants crossings have gone down significantly since executive actions
- July 19, 2024 Migrant crossings continue to plunge, nearing the level that would lift Biden's border crackdown
- June 26, 2024 Guess how much border crossing numbers plummeted after Biden put in a new policy
- July 24, 2024 Harris' border work was on 'root causes' of migration; she wasn't in charge | Fact check
- July 24, 2024 Harris border confusion haunts her new campaign
- January 5, 2023 Biden toughens border, offers legal path for 30,000 a month
- July 19, 2023 Illegal border crossings are down. One big reason why is now part of a court fight
- June 5, 2023 Migrants crossing the border illegally has slowed, but there are still issues
- April 28, 2023 Fact Check: Biden White House Says 'Unlawful Immigration' Is Down (However, recent data on Southwest border apprehensions and encounters under Title 8 and Title 42 provide a mixed picture. The number of these encounters decreased in January and February this year but rose in March. Encounters under both titles rose last month, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. And while the number of encounters under these titles is lower than it was in March 2022, the fiscal year total for 2023 is 160,674 higher than at the same point in the fiscal year 2022. Still, the average number of apprehensions in the first three months of the year is lower than it was in the first three months of 2022 (even if they were preceded by significantly higher encounters between October and December compared to the year before). It appears whether "unlawful immigration is down" is something of a political argument if these are the statistics the White House wishes to rely on. While the picture for this year might have begun to show a slight improvement, apprehensions and expulsions remain at a 30-year high.)
- July 24, 2023 Biden administration sues Texas over floating border barriers used to repel migrants
Consensus
- July 17, 2024 Biden Falsely Claimed Border Crossings Are Down More Than ‘Any Time’ Under Trump Presidency
- May 19, 2021 Unauthorized US-Mexico Border Crossings Reached 20-Year High in April
- April 6, 2024 Social media users confused by USA Today claim that Biden has ‘clamped down on unauthorized border crossings’
- July 25, 2024 Biden asked Harris to tackle the 'root causes' of migration. Here's what happened after that. (“The vice president has agreed — among the multiple other things that I have her leading, and I appreciate it — agreed to lead our diplomatic effort to work with those nations to accept returnees and enhance migration enforcement at their borders,” Biden said. In accepting the task, Harris made her role more specific, describing largely diplomatic responsibilities. “I look forward to engaging in diplomacy with government, with the private sector, with civil society and the leaders of each in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to strengthen democracy and the rule of law and ensure shared prosperity in the region. We will collaborate with Mexico and other countries throughout the Western Hemisphere.” Biden administration officials have pointed to those remarks in rejecting criticism that Harris did not solve the crisis at the border, where there have been record crossings under Biden. They say her job was not to focus on working with countries in the region to address root causes, and they reject the mocking title “border czar.”
The Border Patrol union says Harris did not deliver on any of her immigration-related assignments. )
- July 24, 2024 Axios tries to erase 'border czar' from Kamala's resume, but it used title for her