US Customs & Border Patrol - 2+ million SW encounters 2022

Sorry, but border enforcement does not equal open borders, no matter how many times Fox News claims it does. 

That some people get through does not negate that fact. Some people have always gotten through, even under {shock!} Republican administrations.


Also, interesting math: “US CBP reported more encounters with people who crossed our southern border illegally in fiscal year 2022 than live in 14 US states.”

NO. According to the figures you yourself supplied, there were fewer “gotaways” in FY2022 than the entire population of our lowest-population state. Not the total number in 14 states.

(That may not be what you meant, but it’s what you said.)

If you were referring instead to total numbers of immigrants who were either stopped, or observed but escaped, then you could say there were more encounters than the population of ONE of our 14 smallest states. Still not all 14.

A very misleading statement, whether the words were yours or someone else’s.

Maybe try reading this... Exactly what an encounter is!!!!

And maybe that is because there is a much greater humanitarian crisis in the world today.  Just think about 6.3 million Ukrainians that had to flee their country this year alone because of war.  I think I read somewhere that the global refugee crisis population has doubled in the last decade and that about 85 - 90 million refugees were forced to flee their homes.  So with these numbers do you not think that it is logical that we are having more people coming to our borders to try and save their lives and family?

More people trying to cross our borders to save their children (saving children…which we know is the MAIN concern of Republicans) does not mean we have open borders nor does it mean that we want open borders. Something needs to be done and it is not a wall, it is real refugee reform.  

If you live in a agriculture area or state you know for a fact that people can not hire Americans and desperately need the help.  Who are the people willing to work the fields and pick the crops…not “Americans”.  Just think of the food crisis we would be/will be in without all those hard working people willing to do to back breaking work so you can eat your salad, fruit, veggies and meat  and drink your milk.

Something needs to be done, no doubt, but the open border propaganda crap needs to stop and people need to figure out how to share our planet and make things work.  

Aren’t you glad that by the Grace of your god, as you (general you) always say, didn’t make you be born in Venezuela.   It would be interesting to see what all these people flaming this crisis would do to save their kids if their god had them born into a poverty stricken or war stricken nation.   I am sure they all would be thinking well we might as well just sit here and let them die?   But here in our own country they are willing to start a civil war over the preconceived notion that the left/liberal/democrats are trying to harm their children.  

I do not get it and probably never will. 

Exactly my point, I am so weary of hearing about this talking point with the constant buzz words/phrases that the left have no regard to childrens‘ lives and yet living, breathing, and hurting children here in this world now are being dismissed because even though they have been birthed… it just wasn’t to the right (and take that word’s meaning as you like 😉) people or in the right country.

This is the headline from a Fox News article…

”Hawley demands Mayorkas' resignation over 'intentional disregard' for border security”

If one were to ask a Republican what type of border security do they think the southern border is lacking what do you think their answer would be if they even gave an answer?

And what specifically is the wall going to do with those who dig tunnels under the wall and climb over the wall.  And those who would come by boat in the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico?

And how is the wall going to stop the drugs coming through the checkpoints along the southern border?

How about allocating money for more border patrol agents and more judges to hear asylum cases so it doesn’t take years and enforcing the laws we currently have.  How about the 536 jackasses running this country in DC start acting like adults, stop kicking this can down the road and finally come up with a comprehensive immigration bill.  

As usual, leftturnonly's numbers are missing some important context. Just because there were 2 million encounters, that does not mean there are an extra 2 million people here. The number includes people who have tried multiple times to cross the border. The number also includes people who were deemed inadmissible and denied entry. The number includes many others who were refused entry under title 42. Better questions to ask are how many people were given asylum hearings? How many were granted asylum?

Another favorite conservative talking point - if there were 2 million encounters, how many crossed the border illegally? The answer is not as many as you would think because of barriers, technology and increased enforcement.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/20/immigration-biden-border/

Data from the Department of Homeland Security indicate that north of 80 percent of those seeking to enter the country illegally were stopped in 2019, up substantially in the past decade or two. In part, that is a function of increased use of technology; in part it’s because of expanded barriers on the border both under George W. Bush and Donald Trump. In part, too, it’s probably a function of why many of those crossing the border are being stopped, which we’ll get to in a moment.
The effect, though, is that the combined number of people both stopped at the border and entering illegally is probably lower now than it was 15 to 20 years ago.

The data also include people stopped at border crossings as they seek entry, those deemed “inadmissible.” In other words, among the stops are people who tried to enter at a border checkpoint but were prevented from doing so.

When the Republican Party releases a statement blasting the number of people who have “crossed the border” under Biden — as it did on Monday — it doesn’t mention that most of those people were quickly removed or slated for removal.
It also means that a lot of the people removed from the United States simply come back to the border and try again.

it is not the case that millions of people are pouring over the border unchecked. It’s likely that, despite the recent increase in border stops, fewer people are being stopped or escaping into the United States than 20 years ago. And of those who have been stopped since the beginning of 2021, less than half remain in the country. And only a portion of those who remain end up being released to await a hearing.

So the border is not open and the government is doing his job ,thanks for the heads up leftturnonly .