conix, Let us be more specific -- COVID. B402, Trump’s Misleading Chart on Illegal Immigration [...] In fact, the arrow is pointing to apprehensions in April 2020, when apprehensions plummeted during the height of the pandemic. In his last months in office, apprehensions had more than quadrupled from that pandemic low and were higher than the month he took office. [...] As we have written, apprehensions at the southwest border .. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters , were 14.7% higher in Trump’s final year in office compared with the last full year before he was sworn in.
[Insert: Actually that is the only stat anyone need remember in answer to Trump and his supporters' sw border misinformation.]