The Biden border crisis, explained

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Because it was impossible for CBP to process families that fast, this meant that parents caught at the border would be released into the U.S. along with their children.
52% : In other words, migrants had learned that if they got caught by U.S. officials at the southern border, not only would they not be punished, but U.S. officials would actually help them complete their journey.
49% : Apprehensions at the southern border rapidly fell, and approximately 70,000 migrants were returned to Mexico through this program.
48% : The southern border with Mexico remained largely secure until 2018, when Mexico elected a far-left president who had campaigned on a pledge he would "defend migrants all over the American continent and the migrants of the world who, by necessity, must abandon their towns to find life in the United States."
47% : A flood foretoldOur story actually begins back in the fall of 2013, when researchers at the University of Texas at El Paso noticed that the number of unaccompanied children apprehended while crossing the southern border had more than doubled over the previous three years, rising from just over 16,000 in 2011 to more than 38,000 in 2013.
45% : They warned Department of Homeland Security officials that if policies did not change, the number of migrants apprehended at the border was likely to double again, leaving CBP without the capacity to house and process them.
45% : All they needed to understand was that friends and family who tried to enter the U.S. illegally were getting caught by CBP and then given "permisos" that allowed them to continue on to their destination.
45% : Because a COVID-19 state of emergency was declared, Trump used this "Title 42" power aggressively to return all migrants caught on the southern border back to Mexico.
43% : Biden is still applying the Title 42 ban to single adults trying to cross the southern border, but most families and unaccompanied children apprehended at the border are being allowed into the country, where they are then free to continue on to their final domestic destination.
41% : Customs and Border Protection agents stopped more than 210,000 migrants at the southwest border this July, the highest monthly number in more than 20 years.
41% : The problem lay entirely with U.S. policy at the southern border.
40% : Under this program, migrants from countries other than Mexico who claim asylum when they are apprehended on the southern border are returned to Mexico to wait while their asylum claim is adjudicated.
36% : In 2014, 68,541 unaccompanied children were apprehended at the southern border, completely overwhelming CBP and leading to those now infamous pictures of children in cages.
35% : Enforcement outsourcedUnwilling to close this "catch and release" loophole legislatively, President Barack Obama turned to then-Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto to do the job Democrats refused to do.
35% : And once migrants claiming asylum make it into the U.S., Biden made it clear they had nothing to fear from Immigration and Customs Enforcement as long as he was president.
18% : Finally, in May, Trump threatened an across-the-board 5% increase in tariffs on Mexican imports that could rise to 25% if Mexico did not start doing more to stop migrants from coming to the southern border.

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