15 million migrants entered the United States under Biden.
Let’s be honest: Trump never met a number that he couldn’t double, triple, or even quadruple. In this situation, he took a real number—4 million to 5 million migrants that arrived during Biden’s presidency—and increased it three times.
Then he offered a prediction to make it sound even bigger. But here’s the truth: Customs and Borders Protection managed to record around 8.5 million “encounters” between February 2021, right after Biden took office and December last year. However, this doesn’t mean all those people entered the country through illegal means.
CBP released over 2.3 million migrants into the United States at the southern border under the Biden administration through September, as the Department of Homeland Security stated. These numbers don’t include “getaways,” which usually happen when cameras or sensors detect migrants crossing the border but no one is actually found.
That figure might add an additional 2 million, bringing the total number of migrants that arrived during Biden’s presidency to somewhere between 4 and 5 million.
