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USA’s Southern Border Crisis

Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley
4 min readFeb 6, 2024

The United States of America is facing a massive southern border crisis that has been progressively getting worse since the 1990s; from 1990 to 1997, the USA has taken in 115,000 refugees each year from conflicts around the globe.

As well as people fleeing persecution, according to Pew Research.

As for the current US administration, the Joe Biden administration, from 2021 until the present, is facing a southern migration crisis that is getting worse every single year, and no action has yet to be taken to resolve the issue permanently.

The U.S. southern border has witnessed a record of at least 6.3 million migrant encounters at and between ports of entry since Biden took office in January 2021, according to data from the Office of Homeland Security Statistics, resulting in more than 2.4 million migrants allowed into the country.

However, some political pundits do put the external migration to the USA from people crossing the southern border to over 10 million, and that is very unlikely these people will ever be deported due to the five-year waiting period to see an American judge.

Secondly, the People migrating to the United States will most likely have children born in the USA who will become American citizens.

By the time they reach trial, they will be responsible for dependent children who are US citizens. It is unlikely they will be made to leave the US.

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Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley
Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley

Written by Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley

I have been writing from 2014 to the present day; my writing is focused on history, politics, culture, geopolitics and other related topics.

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