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8/16/22. Newsmax : There was a record number of Southern border encounters, nearly 2,000,000, for the full fiscal year of 2021 (1,734,686). The data comes from the July report of the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol just released. May 2022 set a record with 224,397 Border Patrol migrant encounters, almost half of the 458,088 TOTAL migrant encounters for ALL of fiscal year 2020 – the last year of President Donald Trump's time in office.

Trump had put a number of border-security measures in place, including "Remain in Mexico" and Title 42 expulsions during the COVID-19 pandemic, but Biden's administration worked to undo many of Trump's protections, leading to an increase in migration.