New figures reveal U.S.-Mexico border encounters

The number of encounters since Title 42 became Title 8 have been revealed

The United States has ushered in a new border protection policy over the past few days, and figures over just how many people have crossed over from Mexico, have started to be revealed.

There were fears that thousands of people would start to stream across the border into the United States, but this has not occurred, according to Homeland Security’s Alejandro Mayorkas.

“Over the past two days, the United States Border Patrol has experienced a 50 percent drop in the number of encounters versus what we were experiencing earlier in the week before Title 42 ended at midnight on Thursday.”

However, some Congresspeople believed the matter would be a failure for President Joe Biden – that chaos would break out ensue.

But it hasn’t been that way.

“[Republican Senators] were tragically wrong. […] They were all hoping and praying that the lifting of Title 42 was going to be a monumental failure for President Biden. Ultimately, it doesn’t seem that it turned out that way for them,” Congressman Vicente Gonzalez said.