{"id":1729043,"date":"2022-11-08T06:08:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T11:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1729043"},"modified":"2022-11-08T06:33:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T11:33:06","slug":"border-crossing-deaths-skyrocket-as-biden-admin-hides-the-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-crossing-deaths-skyrocket-as-biden-admin-hides-the-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Crossing Deaths Skyrocket as Biden Admin Hides the Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fborder-crossing-deaths-skyrocket-as-biden-admin-hides-the-data%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1729043&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By James D. Agresti<br \/>November 7, 2022<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/border_crossing_adult_child.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10670\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/border_crossing_adult_child.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1304\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/border_crossing_adult_child.jpg 1304w, https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/border_crossing_adult_child-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/border_crossing_adult_child-1024x538-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/border_crossing_adult_child-768x403-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/border_crossing_adult_child-640x336-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/border_crossing_adult_child-390x205-1.jpg 390w\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Border security is a life-or-death issue with many implications. Beyond the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/immigration#economic\">economic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/immigration#electoral\">electoral<\/a> effects of illegal immigration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/illegal-immigrants-far-more-likely-to-commit-serious-crimes-than-us-public\">violent criminals<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/immigration#crime_drugs\">highly lethal drugs<\/a> often enter the U.S. through its porous southern border. In addition, hundreds of people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/immigration#illegal_border\">die each year<\/a> while trying to cross the border.<\/p>\n<p>Annual totals of border crossing deaths are commonly published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) within about <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200212235710\/https:\/www.cbp.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/documents\/2020-Jan\/U.S.%20Border%20Patrol%20Fiscal%20Year%20Southwest%20Border%20Sector%20Deaths%20(FY%201998%20-%20FY%202019)_0.pdf\">five<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190330160829\/https:\/www.cbp.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/documents\/2019-Mar\/bp-southwest-border-sector-deaths-fy1998-fy2018.pdf\">six<\/a> months of the close of the federal government\u2019s fiscal year on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/31\/1102\">September 30th<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, more than 13 months after the close of the 2021 federal fiscal year, CBP has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22Southwest+border+deaths%22+site%3Acbp.gov&#038;lr=&#038;safe=images&#038;as_qdr=all&#038;biw=1135&#038;bih=871&#038;source=lnt&#038;tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F2021%2Ccd_max%3A11%2F7%2F2022&#038;tbm=\">not published<\/a> the data for 2021, the first year of Joe Biden\u2019s presidency. CBP also hasn\u2019t responded to a Freedom of Information Act request for the data filed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/\">Just Facts<\/a> on October 27, 2021. CBP is part of the Department of Homeland Security, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/about-the-white-house\/our-government\/the-executive-branch\/\">under the authority<\/a> of President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, someone at CBP \u201cshared\u201d the number of border crossing deaths in 2021 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/29\/politics\/border-patrol-record-border-deaths-fiscal-year-2021\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, and the number in 2022 was \u201cobtained exclusively\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/record-856-migrants-die-southern-border-fiscal-year-2022-cbp\">Fox News<\/a>. Combined with <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210812220055\/https:\/www.cbp.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/documents\/2021-Aug\/U.S.%20Border%20Patrol%20Fiscal%20Year%20Southwest%20Border%20Sector%20Deaths%20(FY%201998%20-%20FY%202020)%20(508).pdf\">historical data<\/a>, these figures show that border crossing deaths have reached unprecedented levels in the past two fiscal years. From 247 people in 2020, border crossing deaths doubled to 557 in 2021\u2014and tripled to 856 deaths in 2022:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/us_mexico_illegal_border_crossing_deaths_1998-2022.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/us_mexico_illegal_border_crossing_deaths_1998-2022.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"977\" height=\"712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/us_mexico_illegal_border_crossing_deaths_1998-2022.png 977w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/us_mexico_illegal_border_crossing_deaths_1998-2022-300x219-1.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/us_mexico_illegal_border_crossing_deaths_1998-2022-768x560-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/us_mexico_illegal_border_crossing_deaths_1998-2022-640x466-1.png 640w\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2019, when a father and daughter who were trying to cross the border drowned in the Rio Grande River, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/06\/26\/politics\/mexico-father-daughter-dead-rio-grande-wednesday\/index.html\">Kamala Harris and Beto O\u2019Rourke<\/a> blamed their deaths on Donald Trump, who was president at the time. However, the average yearly death toll from border crossings was lower under Trump than any other president for as far back as <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210812220055\/https:\/www.cbp.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/documents\/2021-Aug\/U.S.%20Border%20Patrol%20Fiscal%20Year%20Southwest%20Border%20Sector%20Deaths%20(FY%201998%20-%20FY%202020)%20(508).pdf\">CBP data<\/a> extends.<\/p>\n<p>While some people who are considering illegal immigration react to tighter border security by taking more dangerous paths, others respond by choosing not to make the trip at all. The net effect of these factors is unknown because many other variables can impact border crossing deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the lower number of deaths under Trump and vastly higher deaths under Biden run contrary to a 2013 article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/articles\/2013\/08\/06\/more-fencing-and-more-patrols-wont-stop-immigration\">U.S. News &#038; World Report<\/a>, which claimed that increased border security causes \u201ca spike in migrant deaths.\u201d The facts are more consistent with the theory that better border security reduces these deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James D. AgrestiNovember 7, 2022 Border security is a life-or-death issue with many implications. 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