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The United States Border Patrol has encountered nearly three million distinct illegal border crossers along the Southwest border during the 4.7 million interactions that have occurred since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021.

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It's a complete disaster. Overworked Border Patrol personnel. Migrants are passing away in transit or dying at the hands of gangs and smugglers.

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Yet, that turmoil has already markedly decreased as a result of President Biden's immigration steps on January 5, which marked the first significant move to regain control of the border in decades.

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A status known as humanitarian parole would allow immigrants from four significant countries of origin who have sponsors in the United States to petition to enter the country legally.

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84,176 encounters with migrants from those four nations were reported by Border Patrol in December 2022, the final full month before humanitarian parole, making up more than 36% of all encounters that month at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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The amount had already decreased by 86 percent in January, to 11,909. Overall border interactions between the United States and Mexico are down 42% as a result.

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In Spring 2022, after a similar initiative was announced, there was a comparable reduction in the number of Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion who showed up at the Southwest border.

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After the Uniting for Ukraine parole programme allowed them to travel directly from overseas with a U.S. sponsor, their numbers decreased from 20,118 in April 2022 to 375 in May, a 98 percent reduction.