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Homeland Security reported a slight drop in illegal immigrants trying to sneak in across the southern border in March, suggesting the department may have turned a corner in the border chaos thats reigned since the start of the Biden administration.

The numbers are still higher than any month under Presidents Obama or Trump, but compared to the worst days of Mr. Bidens tenure, they are substantially better.

The Border Patrol reported catching 137,480 illegal immigrants in March, compared to nearly 250,000 in December, the worst month on record.

Overall, Customs and Border Protection tallied 246,432 unauthorized entries, including more than 107,000 of those coming at airports and other official border crossings.

Those numbers have surged as migrants take advantage of Mr. Bidens parole programs that allow unauthorized migrants into the U.S. despite lacking a legal visa for entry. The administration says the parole programs have taken pressure off the Border Patrol by shaping the flow of illegal immigrants, channeling them to ports of entry where they can be handled.

CBP Commissioner Troy Miller sounded cautiously optimistic about the overall numbers.

Encounters at our southern border are lower right now, but we remain prepared for changes, continually managing operations to respond to ever-shifting transnational criminal activities and migration patterns, he said.

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A parole program for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela requires that they pay for their own flights to the U.S. Instagram posts

Statement: Taxpayer dollars were used to fly 326,000 migrants to Florida under a secret program begun by President Joe Biden.

A parole program for migrants from Latin American countries has been the target of misinformation online, with social media users claiming that taxpayers fund it.

The @NashvilleTeaParty Instagram account, which has 77,000 followers and links to the conservative groups website with the same name, posted a graphic about the program and captioned it "YOUR taxpayer dollars at work!"

The posts image includes a map from Fox News that says 326,000 migrants were flown to Florida and thousands more to other U.S. cities, attributing the figures to the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank advocating for reduced immigration.

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The map image aired April 2 on "Fox & Friends First."

But these flights were not paid for by taxpayers. Nor are they secret, as the Instagram post also alleges.

The migrants who flew to the U.S. did so as part of a parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans that is meant to reduce the number of migrants crossing the southern U.S. border. The U.S. grants parole based on "significant public benefit or urgent humanitarian reasons."

The Department of Homeland Security publicly introduced the program in October 2022, initially for 24,000 Venezuelans.U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Jan. 6, 2023, extended the program to admit 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua each month. Under the program, applicants who meet certain qualifications, including having a U.S.-based sponsor who will support them financially and passing a background check, can request an "advanced authorization to travel and a temporary period of parole for up to two years for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit," according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

The agency also says that migrants in the program must pay for their own air travel to the United States. PolitiFact previously rated False a social media claim that "300,000 illegal immigrants were able to use a simple app to get a free flight to our country."

An April 1 report by the Center for Immigration Studies, which opposes this Biden administration program, said 326,000 migrants had arrived in Florida through the parole program since October 2022.

But the report does not say taxpayers paid for those flights. A March 7 article by the center says that taxpayers did not.

The centers April 1 report also said that although 326,000 migrants in the parole program landed in Miami, Florida might not have been their final destination. Miami International Airport is a large transit hub, particularly for flights between the United States and Latin America.

We rate the claim that 326,000 migrants were secretly flown to Florida with taxpayer money False.

Instagram post (archived), April 2, 2024

Fox News, Cory Mills sounds off on Biden admins secret migrant flights: Attempt to retaliate against red states, April 2, 2024

Department of Homeland Security, DHS Announces New Migration Enforcement Process for Venezuelans, Oct. 12, 2022

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans, Jan. 6, 2023

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Frequently Asked Questions About the Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans, Jan. 5, 2023

Center for Immigration Studies, The Florida Gateway: Data Shows Most Migrant Flights Landing in Gov. DeSantiss Sunshine State, April 1, 2024

Center for Immigration Studies, Fact Checking the Fact Check: CIS Reporting Stands, March 7, 2024

The Economist, If Latin America has a commercial capital, it is Miami, May 7, 2022

PolitiFact, Migrants in parole program do not receive free flights to the US, March 15, 2024

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The problems most visibly associated with mass immigration in the West, legal and illegal, can be addressed at their root if governments choose to act forcefully against them. Paris, which will host the Olympics in the summer of 2024, is now facing that situation head-on. Paris is now beginning a drive to push migrants out of the city ahead of the Olympics. The steps that the city and the French government are taking prior to the games show that states can deal with illegal immigration if they just choose to make it a priority or, more often, if their hand is finallyforced.

Paris is certainly in need of this action. The French capital is possibly the capital city in Europe worst impacted by mass illegal immigration. Many suburbs of Paris have become what the French police euphemistically call Zones Urbaines Sensibles (Sensitive Urban Zones), as migrant and migrant-descended gangs have made sections of the city into strongholds of crime and even terrorism. The French authorities even provide publicly available maps so that people can avoid these zones. Tourists rarely venture there. However, it is the impact mass immigration has on the favored spots for tourists, who will soon descend on Paris for the Olympics that has sparkedaction.

Tourist sites in Paris are now frequently haunted by often aggressive illegal alien vendors, mostly from Africa. These vendors have a reputation for physically harassing and abusing tourists who try to ignore their demands to buy overpriced and often unsafe souvenirs. The infamous friendship bracelet scammers, a gang of illegal African migrants who physically pounce on tourists at the Sacre-Coeur church, are among the most notorious and threatening, and tourist review websites of the Sacre-Coeur often mention the migrants and the levels of aggression they use. There have also been physical attacks on tourists and even rapes by migrants at the Eiffel Tower. The tower itself has been surrounded by a security wall as a precaution against terrorism, something else that mass migration has made an everyday threat inParis.

The city authorities are clearly worried. On the one hand, Paris has declared itself a sanctuary city that is reluctant to do anything about illegal migrants who commit crimes and illegally camp in the streets of the city of lights. On the other hand, it is rightfully concerned that visitors to the Olympics will notice these problems and never come back or discourage others. Olympic host cities often experience a post-Olympic tourist boom, and Paris hopes this will be the case for them, but negative experiences linked to migrants may impede that. Nobody likes to be physically manhandled or worry if they will be raped at a famous landmark, and the sight of large illegal encampments worthy of a Third-World shantytown is hardly a romantic memory. For the duration of the Olympics, the migrants will be moved on, but towns outside of Paris will be the places they end up in. The locals in these towns are unsurprisinglyupset.

The shifting of illegal aliens out of Paris for a few weeks will be a welcome respite for Parisians and tourists alike, but they most likely return once the Olympics are finished, and the social problems like crime, terrorism and public health concerns will return with them. The Potemkin strategy of temporarily moving migrants away to fool tourists into thinking Paris has no problem with illegal immigration is not a solution. France, like all advanced countries, must decide whether it is willing to continue this slide downwards, or whether it wishes to act decisively and reverse it forgood.

Many American cities now face the same problems, as New York, Chicago, and Denver among other places have all struggled with illegal migrant camps and the problems that surround uncontrolled illegal immigration. Whether it be the streets of Paris or the streets of the U.S., illegal immigration is a serious issue. Temporary solutions like moving migrants out of the way until they return, are not enough. More permanent solutions to secure our borders are needed. Citizens must demand that this be actedupon.

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Paris Moves Migrants Out Ahead of Olympics | FAIRUS.org - Federation for American Immigration Reform

I need you badly, Mr. Biden told Hispanic voters last month at Phoenix. Given the opportunity to reach them, he showed the Univision anchor, Enrique Acevedo, a bust of farm union organizer Cesar Chavez. The president discussed the impact of his activism and noted that his granddaughter, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, is his reelection campaign manager.

Mr. Biden told Univision he sympathized with those entering America because they have no alternatives. Chavez, a third-generation American and Navy veteran, took a harder line on those who broke the law one that demonstrates the folly of painting the entire Latino voting block as backing unlimited migration.

In an excerpt of a 1974 interview unearthed by Fish Films Footage World, Chavez explained his opposition to unvetted people entering the country. His reasoning echoed another famed labor leader, Samuel Gompers, who was one of the loudest voices for The Immigration Act of 1924 which capped entry at two percent of each foreign countrys population.

Illegal border crossers, Chavez said, were an emergency with an awful lot of illegals coming in by the hundreds, by the thousands. He lamented that some of the schools are 100 percent illegals, and the citizen is out of a job because of he wetback, a slur now considered offensive.

As Mr. Trump does today, Chavez blamed the federal government for the unbelievable influx that, he reckoned, harmed unions and depressed wages. Was it an uncomfortable position to be against the illegal immigrants because they are from Mexico, the unidentified interviewer asked.

Oh, yeah, sure, Chavez replied. But were speaking of the legal ones. You know, we dont want Mexico to export its poverty to us, and then we pay. He noted that a lot of the farmworkers he represented were of Mexican descent themselves.

Those members of the United Farm Workers, Chavez said, were very uptight and very, very worried and very mad about the illegals coming to break their strikes and take away their jobs, their livelihood and so forth. Members, like their leader, saw this question of illegals is as important as any of the other problems facing the union.

In a letter to the San Francisco Examiner in 1974, Chavez opposed deporting the undocumented, but welcomed them to be admitted as legal residents. But around this time, he launched the Illegals Campaign, spending $80,000 a week on 300 people to patrol the border. Accounts found some of the vigilantes beating and robbing migrants despite Chavezs embrace of nonviolence.

Last week, an Axios-Ipsos Latino Poll found that numbers of Hispanic voters are as nuanced as Chavezs. Some 64 percent supported giving a president the authority to shut down the border if there are too many migrants trying to enter. Asked which candidate is good on immigration, Mr. Trump led Mr. Biden 29 to 22 percent.

Forty-two percent backed Mr. Trumps signature issue, a barrier with Mexico, while 38 percent would send all undocumented immigrants back home. Overall, Mr. Biden was viewed more favorably, 41 to 32 percent, but the pathway to expanding that lead isnt a straight run through an open border policy.

Last months New York Times/Siena College poll found that Hispanic voters favor Mr. Trump over Mr. Biden 46 percent to 40 percent. Its a stark change from 2020, when the Democrat more than doubled the then-incumbent Republicans share, 66 percent to 32 percent.

The reversal has shocked the White House. It assumed that Mr. Trumps hard line against illegal immigration would make him radioactive to Americans of Hispanic descent, as if the same issues crime, housing, and competition for jobs dont impact them as they do other citizens.

Mr. Biden has won the endorsement of Chavezs family, but on the issue of illegal crossings, Mr. Trump can lay claim to a portion of the labor leaders legacy, too. Dont be surprised if his bust keeps its place of honor in the Oval Office whoever is in the Oval Office next year.

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During a speech in Green Bay, Wisconsin, former President Donald Trump pointed to a chart on apprehensions of people trying to enter the U.S. illegally at the southwest border.

See the arrow on the bottom? That was my last week in office, Trump said. That was the lowest number in history. But Trump was wrong on both points.

In fact, the arrow is pointing to apprehensions in April 2020, when apprehensions plummeted during the height of the pandemic. In his last months in office, apprehensions had more than quadrupled from that pandemic low and were higher than the month he took office.

Also, April 2020 was not the lowest point in history. The lowest since 2000 came in April 2017, shortly after Trump took office and before an ensuing spike.

As we have written, apprehensions at the southwest border, were 14.7% higher in Trumps final year in office compared with the last full year before he was sworn in.

During his speech in Green Bay on April 2, Trump claimed to have fixed the border when he was president.

When I came in, I built 571 miles of wall, we had 200 miles sitting there waiting to be erected, far more than I said I was going to build, Trump said.

Actually, a total of 458 miles of border wall system was built during the Trump administration, according to a Customs and Border Protection status report on Jan. 22, 2021. Most of that, 373 miles of it, was replacement for primary or secondary fencing that was dilapidated or outdated. In addition, 52 miles of new primary wall and 33 miles of secondary wall were built in locations where there were no barriers before. Including barriers that existed before Trump took office, there are now about 706 miles of barriers, covering about 36% of the total southwest border. That is far less than the 1,000-mile-long wall that Trump promised during the 2016 campaign.

Trump then had campaign aides put up a chart showing monthly border apprehensions going back to 2012. You can see the chart in the background of the C-SPAN video, but here it is:

See that low spot, Trump said, pointing to the red arrow at the bottom of the chart. This is illegal migrants coming into our country. See the arrow on the bottom? That was my last week in office. That was the lowest number in history.

Had President Joe Biden just left everything alone, he might have gone down as a decent president, at least on the border, Trump said. But on the border, look at that number, that number is so much lower than anything else. And then look at the right of that number. Thats what happened after I left.It was an invasion of our country.

Its an amazing chart actually, Trump said. Its a Border Patrol chart. But look at that low number, got it down to practically nothing.

Trump repeated the claim in an April 4 interview with Hugh Hewitt, saying, We had the safest border in history, and you saw that chart that was released a couple days ago where literally the day I left office, we had the lowest number in history.

The data in the chart itself are accurate, but the Trump campaign editorial notes are not.

The red arrow at the bottom purports to correspond to the point that Trump leaves office and to be the lowest illegal immigration in recorded history! But the arrow actually points to April 2020, when there were 16,182 apprehensions at the southwest border.

April 2020 was the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout that month, the U.S. was under Trump administration guidelines recommending people stay at home and away from one another to slow the spread of the disease.

Any complete reading of what took place at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2020 would have to note the emergence of a global pandemic that dramatically chilled mobility of all forms in its early phase, Michelle Mittelstadt, director of communications for the Migration Policy Institute, told us via email. That is not a factor listed on the chart below, best I can tell.

The pandemic was responsible for a near-complete halt to all forms of global mobility in 2020, due to a combination of border restrictions imposed by countries around the world (we recorded more than 43,000 travel measures taken by countries between January and May 2020 alone, lockdowns, and the shutdown of aviation and other transportation routes), Mittelstadt said.

As the chart shows, after apprehensions reached a pandemic low in April 2020, they rose every month after that. By the actual end of Trumps presidency, apprehensions of immigrants attempting to cross illegally had risen to 71,141 in December 2020 and to 75,316 in January 2021, Trumps last month in office.

In recent speeches, Trump has claimed he fixed the border so completely during his presidency, that it was no longer a campaign issue in 2020.

I was saying the other day that in 2016, one of the biggest issues was the border, Trump said during a speech in Ohio on March 16. And I sort of won on the border, I guess, maybe. And we fixed the border. We fixed it so good that I couldnt even use it in 2020, even though we got millions and millions more votes in 2020, but we couldnt even talk about it. Id say, I want to talk about the border. Tell them what a good job. They said, Sir, you fixed it. Nobody cares.

In reality, apprehensions at the border in Trumps final two months in office were substantially higher than in President Barack Obamas last two months in office. (Apprehensions were 43,251 in December 2016 and 31,576 in January 2017, the last two months of the Obama presidency, compared with 71,141 and 75,316 in Trumps last two months.) Indeed, there were more than 69,000 apprehensions in each of the last four months of the Trump administration, from October 2020 through January 2021. But the highest number of apprehensions under Obama was 67,342 in March 2009.

And as we wrote in Trumps Final Numbers, illegal border crossings, as measured by apprehensions at the southwest border, were 14.7% higher in Trumps final year in office compared with the last full year of Obamas term.

Given that, had Obama fixed the border? Not according to Donald Trump in 2016. Then, he repeatedly called the border broken and made fixing it his primary campaign promise.

We have described the roller-coaster of illegal immigration during Trumps time in office. The number of apprehensions fluctuated wildly from a monthly low of 11,127 in April 2017 shortly after he took office to a high of 132,856 in May 2019.

The number of apprehensions peaked for Trump in mid-2019, and the year ended with the highest number of apprehensions since Fiscal Year 2007. In response to rising levels of apprehensions, Trump issued several policies to reduce immigration flows, including measures to restrict eligibility for asylum and return non-Mexican asylum seekers who cross the southwest border to Mexico while their claims work their way through immigration courts (the so-called Remain in Mexico program). Correspondingly, apprehensions dropped steadily through the second half of 2019 and into 2020.

And then, when the pandemic hit, apprehensions dropped even more dramatically in April and May 2020. In response to the pandemic, Trump put into place a series of policies aimed at blocking migration to the U.S., including one that allowed Border Patrol agents to quickly expel any illegal immigrants they stopped, without allowing them access to the asylum process. Nonetheless, apprehensions increased throughout the second half of 2020.

To be sure, illegal immigration soared after Biden took office, as the chart shows even without cherry-picking the pandemic low. According to our latest update to Bidens Numbers in late January, apprehensions for the 12 months ending in November were 296% higher than during Trumps last year in office.

We discussed some of the reasons for that dramatic increase, including not only high levels of migration around the world due to political and economic turmoil in other countries, but also the perception that Biden was more welcoming of migrants.

But illegal immigration was not down to practically nothing in the weeks or months before Trump left office. It was down to nearly nothing during the stay-at-home phase of the pandemic.

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