Well, here's a definition: Encounters encompass two distinct kinds of events: apprehensions, in which migrants are taken into custody in the United States – at least temporarily – to await adjudication, and expulsions, in which migrants are immediately expelled to their home country or last country of transit without being held in U.S. custody. Doesn't sound at all like 'unmitigated entry'. In fact, I'd say it excludes anyone who avoids border patrol altogether. barfo
What exactly are you expecting the administration to do? The President, at least currently, has to abide by laws and is not a dictator. Arrests are way up, and enforcement is way up. If we want more enforcement, they need more money. The Republicans just drafted a bill in which Democrats were giving Republicans virtually everything they wanted, including language that dictated the border would be 'closed' for a certain period of time if crossings went over a certain threshold. Are you familiar with who just voted against this law that Republicans essentially wrote in its entirety? Republicans and the most progressive Democrats who couldn't swallow either aid to Israel or the hardline language that was in the bill. It makes no sense for Republicans to vote against it except when you view it from the lens of the Trump campaign and how it would remove one of his talking points. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate...licans-block-bipartisan-border-security-deal/
I didn't provide the link. I just replied to it with a chart that was included, showing that Republicans blaming Democrats for the border is stupid. And vice versa.
