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Before and after the U.S. election, Trump repeatedly said he would "close the border," and he also said many Latin Americans had "entered illegally" into the United States.
Later, a chart spread widely online claiming that during Biden's years in office, many people from Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti, Honduras, Venezuela, and Guatemala entered the United States illegally.
However, this chart used inaccurate data.
What U.S. border authorities record is the number of "encounters," which does not necessarily mean people actually entered the United States, because some are stopped, and some try more than once, so they may be counted multiple times.
The chart also included some people who entered legally, so the numbers were exaggerated.
Experts said charts like this contain many errors and cannot show the real situation.
The article also mentioned that immigration issues are often used by some politicians and online accounts to create fear and anti-immigrant sentiment.
In fact, people from different countries leave their hometowns for many complicated reasons, and you cannot draw conclusions from simple numbers alone.