Virginia Allen
@Virginia_Allen5
Ken McIntyre
@KenMac55
October 21, 2023
Data obtained by Fox News shows that agents apprehended 6,386 nationals from Afghanistan between ports of entry in the two years between October 2021 and October 2023, as well as 3,153 from Egypt, 659 from Iran, and 538 from Syria. Fox said those numbers were confirmed by multiple Customs and Border Protection sources.
In March, the White House touted President Joe Biden’s border security policies.
“President Biden has taken historic steps to secure our border and rebuild a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system that was gutted by the previous administration,” the White House said, referring to the Trump administration.
“The {Biden] administration has also put in place new measures to enhance security at the border and reduce the number of individuals crossing unlawfully between ports of entry while expanding and expediting legal pathways for orderly migration for individuals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela,” according to the White House’s March press release.
Upon becoming president in January 2021, Biden stopped the Trump administration’s construction of a wall along America’s border with Mexico, fulfilling his campaign promise to not add “another foot of wall.”
But two weeks ago, the Biden administration announced it would build another 17 miles of border wall in Starr County, Texas.
Biden said he “can’t stop” construction of the border wall because the money was appropriated for it under the Trump administration and the Republican-led House declined to reappropriate the funds for other purposes.
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