No. While Border Patrol encounters with migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border decreased in the first week of Trump’s presidency, there is no evidence of a 95% drop compared to the previous week. The data used to arrive at that percentage incorrectly compared the total number of encounters during Biden’s last seven days in office to the average daily encounters in the week following Trump’s inauguration, a PBS analysis found.
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