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Has Biden administration let 6M migrants come into US and stay? [1]

['Tom Kertscher', 'Wisconsin Watch', 'More Tom Kertscher', 'Fact Checker']

Date: 2024-01-30 17:22:29+00:00

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No.

No official statistics say 6 million migrants have entered the U.S. and stayed since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021.

Through November 2023, immigration authorities recorded 8.2 million encounters, according to tabulations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection data by the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.

An encounter is one person met one time by border authorities.

The best count of migrants remaining in the U.S., according to the institute, is from Homeland Security Department “enforcement lifecycle” reports, which track individual migrants.

At least 3.1 million migrants remained as of September 2023, according to the latest count.

Republicans have said there have also been 1.7 million known migrants observed crossing unlawfully.

Those migrants are estimated, and estimation methods vary along the border, said Ariel Ruiz Soto, a Migration Policy Institute senior policy analyst.

The immigrant advocacy group American Immigration Council agreed with the 3.1 million figure and the other figures reported by the institute.



This fact brief is responsive to conversations such as this one.

Sources

U.S. Customs and Border Protection: CBP Public Data Portal

Google Docs: Ariel Ruiz Soto email 1/24/24

U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Reporting Terminology and Definitions

U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Enforcement Lifecycle Reports

U.S. House of Representatives: NEW DATA REVEAL WORSENING MAGNITUDE OF THE BIDEN BORDER CRISIS AND LACK OF INTERIOR IMMIGRATION

U.S. House of Representatives: FACTSHEET: Final FY23 Numbers Show Worst Year at America’s Borders—Ever – Committee on Homeland Security

Google Docs: Aaron Reichlin-Melnick email 1/24/24

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