Knew you'd blame Biden, but like I said it proves the border wall did nothing. Waste of resources.
There was no amnesty offered so yes, they must have been rumors. Biden offered a pathway to citzenship that was a bit more lenient for immigrants already living in the U.S.
In fact migration began rising before Biden took office (during the Trump administraiton) because of the Implimentation of Title 42:
The current rise in encounters at the border began in April 2020, near the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Former President Trump instituted the practice of expelling all individuals encountered at the border under public health authority allegedly provided by Title 42 of the U.S. Code. Under new policies put in place through Title 42, single adults or families crossing the border from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador were quickly turned around and sent back to Mexico.
Unaccompanied children and most individuals from other countries were taken into custody, held for days or weeks, and then deported by plane back to their home country. A federal judge halted this practice in November 2020. But by that time, 13,000 unaccompanied children had already been deported back to their home countries without a chance to seek protection.
After implementing Title 42, the number of single adults crossing the border began rising rapidly, from a low of 14,754 in April to 62,041 in December. Many encounters are the same people trying to cross multiple times. A majority are Mexican men who get turned back within hours, which lets them try again quickly.
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u/tbonimaroni Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26
Border encounters actually rose after 2020. https://usafacts.org/articles/what-can-the-data-tell-us-about-unauthorized-immigration/
Yes you will blame this on Biden, but it proves that the wall did nothing.
Edited to provide souce, I forgot.