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“Every day Customs and Border Patrol agents encounter thousands of illegal immigrants trying to enter our country.”
— Speech, 01/08/2019
Southern border apprehensions in fiscal 2018 averaged 30,000 a month (or 1,000 a day). They ticked up in the first two months of fiscal 2019, but it’s a stretch to say “thousands” a day. Better to say “hundreds.”