For those of you not living in a single wide trailer in Nebraska, beating on your wife, here is a good synopsis of things over the last 20 years, and good info on what border encounters actually are and some of the reasons for the up and down. Like so many things, presidents don’t have as much to do with it compared to much larger scale global socio and economic things . It’s a very good read on a complex issue.
The monthly number of U.S. Border Patrol encounters with migrants crossing from Mexico has plummeted in 2024 from 2023's record high.
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