White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed that the Biden Administration has reduced illegal immigration by 90 percent. Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy responded by asking her “Where did you get that number from?” He then tried to cite statistics from Customs and Border Protection showing that illegal border crossings had increased when Jean-Pierre interrupted him.
After some crosstalk, she connected the figure to the administration’s parole program for illegal aliens from Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba. It grants legal status to a large number of them, thus giving the appearance that illegal immigration from those countries has declined.
Bill Melugin, a Fox correspondent in Los Angeles, said Jean-Pierre’s claim was “false.” He observed that “There was a window of time earlier this year where encounters with Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and Cubans did temporarily dip 90 percent after [the] policy change, but other countries, like China, shot up over 800 percent. Illegal crossings, including Venezuelans, [are] back at peak highs now.”
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