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Trumplicans - How is that "Migrant Caravan" working for you?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/record-breaking-years-migrant-crossings-091151830.html
After record-breaking years, migrant crossings plunge at US-Mexico border

Kari Lenander runs migrant shelters in west Texas and New Mexico where every green cot has regularly been filled for years.

Now most of the beds are empty.

Along the U. S.-Mexico border, migrant apprehensions plunged in July from a year ago, to the lowest level of the Biden era, according to U. S. Customs and Border Protection statistics provided to USA TODAY.

Migrant crossings have declined every month for the past five months. The results mark a rare victory on one of the Biden administration's toughest political battlefronts, as Vice President Kamala Harris prepares for next week’s Democratic National Convention. CBP is expected to publicly release the new border data Friday.

"The numbers have indeed decreased and have decreased significantly," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told USA TODAY. "The reason for it is not singular. It is a number of different measures that we and others have taken."

Those measures include the creation of new, lawful pathways for migrants to enter the United States in an orderly way, Mayorkas said; consequences for crossing illegally; tougher restrictions on asylum; and hard-won diplomacy with Mexico, Guatemala, Panama and Colombia as those countries boost their own border enforcement and humanitarian relief programs.

Trumplicans - How is that "Migrant Caravan" working for you?
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