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If Numbers Drop At The Border

Will anyone know about it?

Look at this:

The number of migrants crossing into the U.S. illegally at the southern border reached the lowest point of President Biden’s administration in September, three months into his crackdown on asylum claims, according to internal Department of Homeland Security statistics obtained by CBS News.

In September, U.S. Border Patrol agents recorded nearly 54,000 apprehensions of migrants who crossed into the country between legal entry points along the border with Mexico, the government figures show. It’s a smaller figure than the previous Biden-era low in July, when Border Patrol processed roughly 56,000 migrants who crossed the border without authorization. 

Border Patrol’s tally of migrant apprehensions in September is the lowest number recorded by the agency since August 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic and the travel restrictions countries enacted in response to it led to a sharp decrease in migration to the U.S. southern border.

It would be nice if there were screaming headlines about this but there are a lot of screaming headlines about everything right now. But considering that Trump’s main line of attack is that hordes of migrants are coming to slit your throats in your kitchen (he actually says that) it seems pretty salient.

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