{"id":462011,"date":"2021-04-29T17:05:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T21:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=462011"},"modified":"2021-04-29T17:05:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T21:05:48","slug":"over-11-million-undocumented-folks-the-vast-majority-overstaying-visas-breaking-down-joe-bidens-misleading-immigration-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/over-11-million-undocumented-folks-the-vast-majority-overstaying-visas-breaking-down-joe-bidens-misleading-immigration-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Over 11 Million Undocumented Folks \u2014 The Vast Majority Overstaying Visas\u2019: Breaking Down Joe Biden\u2019s Misleading Immigration Claim"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fover-11-million-undocumented-folks-the-vast-majority-overstaying-visas-breaking-down-joe-bidens-misleading-immigration-claim%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=462011&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4141.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>During Biden\u2019s first address to Congress on April 28, he claimed that of the \u201cover 11 million undocumented folks\u201d living in America, \u201cthe vast majority\u201d are \u201coverstaying visas.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This ad-lib addition to the prepared script was \u201cnot totally off base,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/04\/28\/fact-checking-bidens-2021-address-congress\/\">The Washington Post<\/a>, while CNN\u2019s fact-checker <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddale8\/status\/1387593232536805376\">Daniel Dale<\/a> described such comments as \u201chis pattern,\u201d indicative of \u201csome issues when he starts ad-libbing number stuff.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In other words, Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cnumber stuff\u201d is wrong. Here\u2019s why.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Southern border apprehensions have been declining since peak in 2000<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2000, apprehensions of people trying to illegally cross the border between the United States and Mexico peaked at 1.6 million. While the numbers had increased since 1960, with another spike a few decades prior, the number of border apprehensions has declined since 2000, falling to just under 400,000 in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/01\/09\/fact-checking-president-trumps-oval-office-address-immigration\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_29\"><span>The Washington Post<\/span><\/a><span>, \u201cThe decline is partly because of technology upgrades; tougher penalties in the wake of the 9\/11 terrorist attacks; a decline in migration rates from Mexico; and a sharp increase in the number of Border Patrol officers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>In recent years, more people are overstaying their visas than being apprehended crossing the border illegally<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the Department of Homeland Security, 606,926 people were suspected of overstaying their visa in fiscal 2017, compared to the lowest number of border apprehensions at just over 300,000 in almost 50 years. In the previous fiscal year, there were 544,676 suspected visa overstays, compared to 408,870 reported border apprehensions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Therefore, it is true that <\/span><i><span>in recent years<\/span><\/i><span>, the number of visa overstays has been greater than the number of border apprehensions \u2014 while also noting that the number of border apprehensions is the lower-bound of illegal border crossings, as it\u2019s likely that some people are not apprehended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Biden applied recent years to all 11 million illegal immigrants<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>What makes Biden\u2019s claim false is that he applies the recent conclusion \u2014 that visa overstays have outpaced border apprehensions \u2014 to <em>all<\/em> illegal immigrants. The Washington Post explained, \u201cWhen looking comprehensively across decades, border-crossings are still the top driver of undocumented migration.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn fact, the recent surge at the border in 2019 and in Biden\u2019s early months may have substantially changed the percentages,\u201d The Washington Post added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-speech-fact-check-e1c6e84672dad093c40cec0c1acd8dde\">Associated Press<\/a> went one step further, saying \u201cThere is no official count of how many people entered the country legally and overstayed visas. The government estimates that 11.4 million were living in the country illegally as of January 2018 but doesn\u2019t distinguish between how many entered legally and stayed after their visas expired and how many arrived illegally.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cRobert Warren of the Center for Migration Studies of New York, a former director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service\u2019s statistics division who has studied visa overstays for decades, has done the most recent work on the issue. He estimated that, as of 2018, 46% of people in the country illegally overstayed visas \u2014 not a majority, let alone a \u2018vast majority,\u2019\u201d added the Associated Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"><i><span>@ighaworth<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Biden\u2019s first address to Congress on April 28, he claimed that of the \u201cover 11 million undocumented folks\u201d living in America, \u201cthe vast majority\u201d are \u201coverstaying visas.\u201dThis ad-lib addition &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277037,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4141.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Over 11 Million Undocumented Folks \u2014 The Vast Majority Overstaying Visas\u2019: Breaking Down Joe Biden\u2019s Misleading Immigration Claim","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4141.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Over 11 Million Undocumented Folks \u2014 The Vast Majority Overstaying Visas\u2019: Breaking Down Joe Biden\u2019s Misleading Immigration Claim","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}