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15 million illegals entered the U.S. during the Biden Administration.

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I guess you missed the 15 million illegals entering the country during the Biden Administration or the leftist riots in 2020?
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15 million immigrants did not enter the country during the Biden administration. That number is based on the "encounters" of border agents and immigrants. They have been made to sound like all of them are crossing but the 15 million number also includes people who been sent back, legal refugees, and repeat offenders, etc. Here is my source : https://cmsny.org/correcting-record-false-misleading-statements-on-immigration/



 

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Hi! It might be a good idea to also add that the Trump administration had a nearly 52.2 to 48.6% higher number of immigrants in comparison to the Biden administration. The statistic is in the same article that you linked.
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Good assertion, your source looks very trustworthy and includes plenty of sources within it's own right. I believe it may be beneficial to clarify what the actual number of estimated immigrants are in addition to what you mentioned.
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This claim that 15 million immigrants illegally entered the country during Biden's administration is misleading and untrue. While the original post this information was taken from is no longer active, after doing some of my own digging, I found that the Department of Homeland Security reported that 8 million illegal immigrants entered the country during Biden's administration. What is misleading about this is that they include border "encounters," meaning immigrants who were encountered and returned before entering. Similarly, they counted every encounter, even if it was from the same offender, which increased that number by around 20-25%. Moreover, it was stated that the Trump administration released a higher number of migrants into the country than the Biden administration, by 52.2 percent to 48.6 percent over two years. For my secondary source, I confirmed this by looking at the Migration Policy Institute, which estimated an even lower number of around 5.7 million. Migration Policy Institute is an nonparisan independent source that focuses on providing information rather than forcing a political agenda. Here are my sources.

 

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