What do you really think this US–Mexico border chart shows?

[AviatorTom]

The bar chart shows encounters at the US Southern border with Mexico for each month between 2021 and 2026.

What do you really think about it?

[OneViewpoint]

Now show me the chart of US agricultural output and farm bankruptcies.

Farm Bankruptcies, Chapter 11 + Chapter 12 filings. Total 1,519.

• 2021 - 285
• 2022 - 185
• 2023 - 150
• 2024 - 234
• 2025 - 340
• 2026 - 325 est

Show me the real income and returns to operators from 2021 to 2026. How are farmers staying afloat? Price increases, inflation.

• 2021 $129.7 billion
• 2022 $164.8 billion
• 2023 $129.3 billion
• 2024 $109.1 billion
• 2025 $143.9 billion
• 2026 $139.3 billion

Show me inflation numbers from 2021 to 2026. 24% overall.

2026 (The Current Cost Squeeze): General inflation has cooled to around 2.8% to 3.7%, but aggregate farm input prices surged 10.6% year-over-year. This divergence has drastically erased farm margins.

• 2021: 7.04% (or 4.70% depending on the specific CPI baseline index month)
• 2022: 6.45%
• 2023: 3.35%
• 2024: 2.89%
• 2025: 2.68%
• 2026 (YTD): ~3.37%

Show me the national debt from 2021 to 2026.

• 2021: $28.4 trillion
• 2022: $30.9 trillion
• 2023: $33.2 trillion
• 2024: $35.5 to $36.0 trillion
• 2025: $38.5 trillion
• 2026 (August): Over $40.2 trillion

How about the average price of diesel fuel per gallon?

• 2021 - $3.29
• 2022 - $4.99
• 2023 - $4.21
• 2024 - $3.76
• 2025 - $3.66
• 2026 - $6.382

[AviatorTom]

@OneViewpoint This is interesting info, but it really has nothing to do with illegal immigration at the Southern border. There are many other reasons for these economic changes.

[exitseven]

It means that we did not need more legislation to secure the border, we just needed a new President.

Make America Safe Again

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Anonymous]

Personally, what jumps out at me is how dramatically the numbers change over time. There’s a very clear period where encounters rise and reach extremely high levels, followed by a sharp decline in the later part of the chart.

I wouldn’t use the chart by itself to say why those changes happened, though. Border encounters can be affected by enforcement policies, changes in migration patterns, conditions in other countries, seasonal factors and changes in how people are processed. CBP itself defines an encounter as different types of interactions, including apprehensions and inadmissible individuals, so an encounter isn’t automatically the same thing as a successful illegal entry.

So to me, the biggest thing the chart shows is how much border activity changed over those years, not by itself what caused every change or what the policy should be.

[sage2021]

How many illegal aliens slipped right past the border into America 🇺🇸 no questions asked and here's you new free cellphone. 📱

[OlderAndWiser]

This demonstrates the power of Trump.

[NathanDavis]

90% of trafficking goes through an official port of entry... this includes drugs, people, guns, and much more... and in most of the time, bribes are involved as to never be stopped nor checked...

I cross the border all the time... and most of the time, nobody asks me for papers, ID, licenses anything if I am driving myself... and even less if I am a passenger

that graphic, even if true... only represents about 10% of the illegal trafficking

so... 90% of the trafficking is ARRANGED by the corruption on both sides of the border, that's still ongoing, and it has never been stopped... if anything, it only got more expensive but... Americans will pay whatever they have to pay to get their drugs and their cheaper labor as well

[strateguy632]

Clearly biden got more points so he won so trump is a loser. J. k. i interpret that FAR LESS are now paying smugglers to get them in! now that they know ice' will just expel them. So Paying the smuggler is a waste. This is a great nessage to send to outsiders: we did expel. Dont even hire the smugglers.

[Paige2006]

The border and how many illegals were let in the US under Biden verses Trump

[gasman70]

How much Mexican people like Trump vs Biden's import policy on illegal imports. People mostly.

[msc545]

I don't know. I suppose it depends on what the word encounter means in this context. Maybe explaining that would be helpful.

[Shiprex]

That the border force isn't catching so many people crossing the border because they're incompetent

[FunkyMonkee]

That Biden is a fucking asshole and nearly destroyed the country!

[andreasderjuengere]

Encounters with friendly people on the Northern side?

[duntoldya]

craazy. all we needed was a different president.

[Cidknee]

Number of illegal entries into our country.

[Staximus]

Success.