{"id":225620,"date":"2024-05-29T23:32:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T23:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/southwest-border-encounters-thru-april\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:18:28","slug":"southwest-border-encounters-thru-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/southwest-border-encounters-thru-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Border Encounters, thru April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-52409\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The title at Zerohedge screams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/illegals-believe-trump-going-win-so-theyre-surging-border-now-report\">\u201cIllegals Believe Trump Is Going To Win So They\u2019re Surging The Border Now\u201d<\/a>. I looked for data, but found none, so I checked\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters\">CBP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SouthwestBorder_encounters.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52410\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SouthwestBorder_encounters.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SouthwestBorder_encounters.png 736w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SouthwestBorder_encounters-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SouthwestBorder_encounters-624x379.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters\">CBP<\/a>, accessed 23 April 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>April\u2019s reading is lower than corresponding readings for 2023 and 20222, and matches 2021. This is not the picture I expected reading the Zerohedge article.<\/p>\n<p>It is true an encounter does not mean \u201cone person\u201d encountered; however, unless there is a systematic bias in the number of people in any given group encountered by CBP, then one can infer that incoming individuals is less \u2014 not more \u2014 than in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2024\/05\/southwest-border-encounters-thru-april\" title=\"4:31 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2024-05-23T16:31:57-07:00\">May 23, 2024<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/author\/menzie_chinn\" title=\"View all posts by Menzie Chinn\" rel=\"author\">Menzie Chinn<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2024\/05\/southwest-border-encounters-thru-april\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The title at Zerohedge screams \u201cIllegals Believe Trump Is Going To Win So They\u2019re Surging The Border Now\u201d. 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