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Has the Biden administration 'allowed 6 million migrants to come into this country and stay'?

By Tom Kertscher
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No official statistics say 6 million migrants have entered the U.S. and stayed since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021.

Through November 2023, immigration authorities recorded 8.2 million encounters, according to tabulations of U.S. Customers and Border Protection data by the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.

An encounter is one person met one time by border authorities.

The best count of migrants remaining in the U.S., according to the institute, is from Homeland Security Department “enforcement lifecycle” reports, which track individual migrants.

At least 3.1 million migrants remained as of September 2023, according to the latest count.

Republicans have said there have also been 1.7 million known migrants observed crossing unlawfully.

Those migrants are estimated and estimation methods vary along the border, Soto said.

The immigrant advocacy group American Immigration Council agreed with the 3.1 million figure and the other figures reported by the institute.

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