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U.S. border statistics that approach ~10 million during the early 2020s are counts of **border “encounters”** (apprehensions/processing events), not a count of **unique people who entered and stayed**. - **Encounters are events, not people**: Border Patrol can encounter the same person multiple times (for example, if someone is expelled/deported and tries again), so totals can’t be read as “X million individuals entered.” - **Many encounters did not result in people being “into this country”**: A substantial share of encounters ended in expulsion/deportation/removal. So describing this as a party having “imported 10 million illegals into this country in four years” misstates what the underlying data measure. (Separately, “imported” implies intentional importation; the hard, checkable error here is treating ~10 million encounters as ~10 million illegal immigrants brought into the U.S.).