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Biden’s border turnaround? Illegal immigration drops to Trump-era levels
By
Anna Giaritelli
August 3, 2024 5:00 am
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The number of migrants arrested after attempting to enter the United States from Mexico has dropped to levels not seen since the Trump administration, an abrupt turnaround just in time for Vice President Kamala Harris‘s presidential run.
Four Border Patrol officials with access to federal government data shared with the Washington Examiner that the number of migrants apprehended each day for illegally entering the U.S. from Mexico has averaged between 1,670 and 2,500 arrests over the past 10 days.
Those figures track with the final months of 2020, right as former President Donald Trump prepared to leave office. Then, arrests averaged between 2,350 and 2,500 per day — or between 65,000 and 75,000 arrests in a month, according to Border Patrol statistics.
With three months until the November election and immigration continuing to top voters’ concerns, President Joe Biden faces pressure to maintain the state of the border as he passes the baton to Harris as the Democratic Party’s new presumptive nominee. Harris was tasked with addressing the root causes of the migration crisis as vice president, a role the GOP has dubbed the “border czar.“
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