Fact Check: Biden Falsely Claims Border Encounters Lower Than When Trump Left Office

Facts And Fact Checking, Joe Biden, Immigration, 2024 Presidential Election
Posted on AllSides July 12th, 2024
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CLAIM: President Joe Biden claimed at his high-stakes make-or-break NATO press conference that border crossings are lower than when former President Donald Trump left office.

VERDICT: FALSE. NBC News reported 84,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended at the border in June 2024. In January 2021, when Trump left office, there were 75,000 migrant encounters along the southwest border.

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