Fact Check: Kamala Claims Biden Admin Has Halved 'Flow of Immigration'

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-26 15:25:10 | Updated at 2024-10-26 17:36:20 2 hours ago

Fact Check: Kamala Claims Biden Admin Has Halved 'Flow of Immigration'
Newsweak ^ | Oct 25. 2024 | Tom Norton

Posted on 10/26/2024 8:12:00 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris dealt with questions on border security during her CNN Town Hall this week, responding to arguments that the Biden administration had not acted quickly enough to deal with undocumented migrants entering the U.S.

While GOP presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump has described the administration's actions as a failure, figures from the last four months have shown a steady and significant reduction in the number of apprehensions along the U.S. border with Mexico.

Harris told CNN's Anderson Cooper that numbers had more than halved in recent months, pointing to newly released statistics.

The Claim

During a CNN Town Hall on October 23, Harris claimed that the Biden administration had more than halved the "flow of immigration" into the U.S.

"And as of today, we have cut the flow of immigration by over half," Harris said.

The Facts

Harris made a claim similar to this during her 60 Minutes interview, saying that the flow of immigration had halved, updating that figure to "more than halved" during the CNN Town Hall.

The vice president had been asked by Cooper why the administration had not implemented actions to tackle migration sooner. More specifically, Cooper asked why it had not sooner implemented an order made in June barring migrants who crossed the southern border unlawfully from receiving asylum......

The Ruling

True.

Data for September 2024 shows a 54 percent reduction in the number of encounters along the southwest border between ports of entry, compared to May 2024, a month before the Biden administration implemented new restrictions on migrants claiming asylum.

The reduction in encounters is even larger when compared to data from September 2023.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bordercrossings; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigration

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What newsweak fails to say is that for over 3 years Harris (aka the border czar) has enabled a massive influx of illegals into our country. But only just prior to the election is stemming the tide. However this is probably just a temporary thing and the spicket will be wide open if they successfully steal the election, again.

To: where's_the_Outrage?

Right, that half they are talking about never saw the border. They got air lifted right into the US proper

2 posted on 10/26/2024 8:13:02 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)

To: where's_the_Outrage?

“says encounters’....so how many are NOT being reported. They’re such liars.

3 posted on 10/26/2024 8:14:43 AM PDT by Sacajaweau

To: where's_the_Outrage?

When you quadruple (or more) the flow, a cut in half (even IF true) is hardly an accomplishment.

4 posted on 10/26/2024 8:16:28 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)

To: where's_the_Outrage?

“Data for September 2024 shows a 54 percent reduction in the number of encounters...”

1. Compared to May, 2024.
2. ENCOUNTERS

Easy to accomplish if you just tell the BP to ease up and maybe even take off some of those accumulated days-off.

It’s all smoke and mirrors. And, most sadly, the GOPe is just the other side of the Dhimmicrap coin.

5 posted on 10/26/2024 8:18:41 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)

To: where's_the_Outrage?

6 posted on 10/26/2024 8:20:30 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)

To: where's_the_Outrage?

Right.
Flow goes from 1 under Trump to 10 under Biden.
Biden operates at 10 for three full years, letting in 10 to 20 million.
Bide cut flow fro 10 to 5 at the last minute.
Then they brag “Look how great we are! We cut flow by 50%.”

Such patent BS.

It’s the exact same lame argument they made for inflation. The vast damage was done, then they crow about reducing the RATE of inflation.

Do people really out undrstandthis?

7 posted on 10/26/2024 8:20:53 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (It should be illegal to be here illegally. It should be a crime to be committing crimes in the USA.)

To: where's_the_Outrage?

She means halved the reporting of border invaders.

8 posted on 10/26/2024 8:22:21 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)

To: where's_the_Outrage?

Sounds like somebody been hittin’ da sauce.

9 posted on 10/26/2024 8:22:33 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Funny how the media handed the ball off to treasonous RINOs to carry Harris across the goal line)

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