United States: Former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump has made a comeback to the microblogging site X for the much-awaited interview with Elon Musk.
The Former President had earlier promised that he plans to implement the “largest deportation effort in American history”.
Speaking on the issue of the illegal immigrant issues in the US. Trump criticized Biden’s Government for letting record number of illegal immigrants enter the US. He adds that around 50-60 million people from all over the world including Africa, Asia, Middle East and other regions are crossing the borders unlawfully.
“They are coming in from everywhere and they have another five months,” Trump stated.
Earlier, Trump had claimed there were 18 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. One of the two former Trump officials said it could be as high as 30 million.
However, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 7.1 million arrests for illegal crossings from Mexico between January 2021 and June 2024. That’s arrests, not people. Under pandemic-era asylum restrictions, many people made multiple crossing attempts until they succeeded because there were no legal consequences for getting turned back to Mexico. So, the number of people is lower than the number of arrests.
In addition, CBP said it stopped migrants 1.1 million times at official land crossings with Mexico between January 2021 and June 2024, largely under an online appointment system to claim asylum called CBP One.
U.S. authorities also admitted nearly 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela under presidential authority if they had financial sponsors and arrived at an airport.
All told, that’s nearly 8.7 million encounters. Again, the number of people is lower due to multiple encounters for some.
(Inputs from AP)
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