New statistics about the millions of migrants released into the United States under President Joe Biden pose a concern for him as he turns to his reelection in 2024.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has released more than 2.3 million migrants into the U.S. at the southern border under the Biden administration, The Washington Post reported, citing data from the Office of Homeland Security Statistics.
Mass releases of migrants are typically a final resort when border agents do not have the personnel or capacity to process migrants using normal procedures, the newspaper noted.
While the number is significantly less than the more than 6 million migrants taken into CBP custody during the same period, the data is likely to bolster criticism of Biden by Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination, and other Republicans on the campaign trial.
Biden has also faced criticism from Democrats over his administration’s policies regarding the southern border.
Biden “is staggeringly vulnerable on the immigration question” ahead of the 2024 election, said Thomas Gift, an associate professor of political science and director of the Centre on U.S. Politics at University College London.
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