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Is there a decent explainer breaking down il/legal migrant inflows into the US? I'm aware of the CHNV mass parole program, but is that separate from the flights bringing in "inadmissable" migrants?
How do both of these compare to numbers from the southern border?
There's this general attitude of "everyone knows what's going on", but nobody except Datahazard seems to have a clear picture of the stats.
Last time I looked at the numbers was in the Covid era, when the big split was section 8 vs 42 deportations. So those are pretty much useless, now.
Maybe the CBP stats for transfers (meaning repatriations) and arrivals? The latter gives a ceiling of ~3,500 entries per month at southern-border airports. That is hilariously tiny compared to land traffic on the border. Given the poverty involved, that isn’t too surprising.
By “flights bringing in inadmissibles” I assume you’re talking about the policy getting excoriated here? Comparing those numbers to the airport numbers above, it seems clear that the flights are from border sites to the rest of the U.S., regardless of how the passengers got to the border.
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Homeland security page
PDF on overstays from the Congressional research service
Monthly tables from Homeland Security
Article from Pew research this month.
None of this may be what you're looking for; maybe someone else can provide better links.
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