Immigration officials have encountered immigrants at the southwest border about 4.5 million times during the Biden administration, a historic high. Most of these encounters have led to expulsions, not people staying in the U.S. indefinitely.
ities to deny U.S. entry to migrants seeking asylum as long as the U.S. doesn’t have space to detain them.
"Under Biden, we have seen over 4.6 MILLION encounters at our southern border. Most have been released into the interior and will stay here indefinitely," Roy said in a Jan. 23 Twitter Roy's count includes encounters in January 2021, even though Biden was not president for most of that month.
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