No. of Recommendations: 8
No, he's not. We do not have "open borders". Period. Not the northern border, and not the southern. That's just false.
Do we have a problem? Sure. No one is saying we don't. It's been a problem for
generations, although the applications for asylum have increased recently.
And then you link an article that used inflammatory words like "flooding", so I knew even before I checked:
mediabiasfactcheck.com - Washington examinerExtreme right-wing, mixed factual. Personally, if it isn't "mostly factual" or higher, I ignore it. Right or left, doesn't matter.
For some actual facts/data:
pewresearch.org - What we know about unauthorized immigrants living in the USRecent article, but their data appears only to be up to 2021.
Some more data indicating 2.5 million "encounters" (which would mostly be apprehensions) this year.
migrationpolicy.org - Border numbers.
Plus this interesting bit:
Less attention has been given, however, to the very significant change in migration patterns evident in the data, with migrants from beyond Mexico and northern Central America representing 51 percent of irregular arrivals at and between ports of entry—for the first time ever.
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More migrants than ever before who are reaching the United States without prior authorization to enter are now arriving at ports of entry as a result of the parole programs and use of the CBP One app. The numbers arriving at ports of entry more than doubled from FY 2022, even as the Border Patrol had 160,598 fewer encounters of migrants crossing illegally in FY 2023 than the prior year—the result of policies to channel arrivals to ports of entry. In fact, without the increase at ports of entry, overall encounters in FY 2023 would not have surpassed those of the previous year. 