The number of illegal aliens encountered at the U.S. southern border ticked up by three percent in August despite the Biden-Harris government importing tens of thousands of migrants through so-called “legal pathways.” Over 58,000 illegals were apprehended at the southwest border last month, an increase compared to July but down from the quarter of a million apprehensions logged in December.
After years of claiming that executive action could not curb record-breaking illegal immigration at the southern border, the Biden-Harris government has finally begun taking action to reduce the influx ahead of the November elections. However, the decreases relative to 2021-23 are in large part due to the government bringing migrants who would otherwise cross the border illegally into the U.S. via “legal pathways” instead.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered over 47,700 migrants at southwest border ports of entry in August. This is more than triple the figure for August 2021, the first year of the Biden-Harris government, and likely comprised mainly of migrants who have made CBP One app appointments. Up to 1,450 migrants a day can make appointments to come to ports of entry and claim asylum through the CBP One app. A separate ‘CHNV’ program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans allows up to 30,000 migrants a month to be flown into the U.S. directly.
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The Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security (DHS) boasts that “encounters of CHNV nationals in between [ports of entry] are down 99 percent” since the program was implemented, but the fact CHNV migrants are being flown in “legally” rather than crossing the border without permission will be cold comfort to Americans who believe they should not be in America at all. At least 530,000 CHNV migrants have been “paroled” into the U.S. in the year to August 2024.
On Sunday, former President Donald J. Trump vowed to “stop all migrant flights, end all illegal entries, terminate the Kamala phone app for smuggling illegals (CBP One App), revoke deportation immunity, suspend refugee resettlement, and return Kamala’s illegal migrants to their home countries (also known as remigration)” if reelected.
