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I did look at the numbers, from the official US dataset published I guess by a Biden-controlled admin.

https://www.cbp.gov/document/stats/southwest-land-border-enc...

And I don't know how you claim such things:

Trump 2019: 977,509

Trump 2020: 458,088 (46.86% from previous year)

Biden 2021: 1,734,686 (378.68% from previous year)

Biden 2022: 2,378,944 (137.14% from previous year)

Biden 2023: 2,475,669 (104.07% from previous year)

Biden 2024: 2,135,005 (86.24% from previous year)

I couldn't find older that 2019, but it's clear that in trumps last year, it more than halfed from his previous year. Then it more than tripled in the first year under Biden. Then almost doubled again in the subsequent year under Biden, and then grew a bit in 2023. Then only in 2024, did it reduce by a tiny 14%. Notably a 14% of what is effectively a number 5 times higher than what Trump got it down to before he left office.

And yeah you could argue (like some of the journalist did) that "oh this is just because Trump created a backlog". Well that's what people wanted, and it stopped the flow of people over the border. That's solving the problem, and really just shows that Biden literally just opened the doors, let it grow huge, and then "claimed success" when it started going back down to it's pre-Trump average. This is why we can't discuss this, we have so many supposedly "smart" people arguing and using the supposed "data" to twist the truth, and then dismissing what every can see plain as day (and is in this case supported by the data).

Oh and let's also not mention that it surged quite a bit in the last few months of 2024 when people I would assume started to flood the border in anticipation of Trump's arrival. So all that supposed work the Biden team did somehow didn't apply then? Of course, because they did nothing and the numbers reflect the fact that the border just lets them go through.