South Dakota governor encounters migrants crossing southern border while visiting National Guard

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : CBP encountered 188,829 people attempting to cross the southwest border in June, which included an 8% increase in the number of unaccompanied children compared to May. Encounters in the Rio Grande Valley are up 461% compared to last year, according to CBP.
50% : "I was speaking with some of the Border Patrol and National Guard that I sent down here, and they were talking about how they've discovered that each one child is about $200 to bring across the border, the adults are $500, sometimes up to $5,000," Noem said.

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