CNN did not review preliminary March data specifically on family expulsions.īiden claimed that there were five times as many motions to break the filibuster in 2020 than there were between 19.
For the week ending March 17, 53% of the 34,526 people encountered at the southwest border were expelled, the lowest percentage of a 2021 week to date. Preliminary data for this month up to March 17, which was reviewed by CNN, showed that the percentage of people expelled under Title 42 had fallen substantially since February. Published Customs and Border Protection data for February shows that 7,915 migrants who were part of a “family unit” on the southwest border were expelled under the Title 42 pandemic expulsion policy – about 41% of the 19,246 family-unit members who were in “encounters” with US officers that month.Īt another moment of the news conference, Biden said, “The overwhelming majority of people coming to the border and crossing are being sent back.” That is a fair claim about what happened in February, when nearly 72% of the 100,441 total people encountered at the border – in other words, not just family-unit members – were expelled under Title 42.
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Defending his approach to migration at the southern border, Biden claimed that “we’re sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming.”įacts First: This was not true in February, the last month for which we have full data.
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