Nearly half a million immigrant children have arrived without a parent at the nation’s borders during President Joe Biden‘s tenure, a milestone no other administration has come close to hitting.
In the three years since Biden took office and stopped returning to Mexico unaccompanied minors, a whopping 464,922 children have been encountered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection police nationwide, according to a Washington Examiner analysis of federal data from Feb. 1, 2021, through Jan. 31, 2024.
“The increase started when the Biden administration announced they were exempting children from Title 42 and announced that we would not be removing children,” said Rodney Scott, the former Border Patrol chief under the Trump and Biden administrations who is a distinguished senior fellow for border security at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think
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