CBP released its Southwest border statistics for May on June 20, and while Border Patrol apprehensions dropped slightly compared to April, inadmissible alien encounters at the border ports approached 53,000 - a new record and a 565 percent increase compared with May 2021.
As a definitional reminder, since March 2020, CBP has been using the term "Encounter" to refer to both aliens apprehended by Border Patrol agents between the ports of entry and aliens deemed inadmissible at those ports by CBP officers.
In May, Border Patrol agents at the Southwest border apprehended nearly 118,000 illegal entrants, an 8.5 percent decline compared to April, but most importantly for the Biden administration, the lowest apprehension total since the president's first full month in office.
As noted at the outset, the number of aliens deemed inadmissible at the Southwest border ports of entry by CBP officers in the agency's Office of Field Operations set a new all-time record in May, as officers stopped 52,817 aliens with no proper admission documents and no right to enter the United States.
That's a roughly 4 percent increase over April, a 53-percent rise over May 2023, and more than twice as many OFO Southwest border port encounters as in May 2022, not to mention the 565-percent jump over May 2021.
The reason for that increase is clear: The Biden administration is deliberately funneling would-be illegal migrants away from the border itself and into the border ports to hide the true size and costs of its border policies.
Sure enough, the CBP Monthly Update for May confirms that more than 636,600 inadmissible aliens have scheduled appointments at the Southwest border ports using CBP One, and that "About 462,100 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans" have arrived on CHNV Parole.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Latest-CBP-Stats-Show-New-Record-Southwest-Border-Port-Encounters
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