# Southwest border encounters remain at record levels during Harris’s migration assignment

Date: 2022

## The fact

Through fiscal 2022, CBP southwest-land encounters remained at historically high levels while Harris held a [White House](/organizations/white-house) migration ‘root causes’ assignment. She did not command CBP.

## Context

Title 42, parole programmes, and Mexican cooperation sat. Neighbouring ‘do not come’ is 2021. Store as complex: assignment is real; operational command is not.

7 June 2021 is the parent message. IRA 2022 is a different statute.

The Vice President of the United States presides over the Senate, casts tie-breaking votes, and carries delegated White House portfolios. She does not write House bills, CBP operational orders, or Federal Reserve rate decisions. A vice president is not co-author of every presidential statute.

## Evidence and sources

U.S. Customs and Border Protection carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [migration-policy restrictiveness](/drivers/mig-policy-restrictiveness) and [humanitarian access](/drivers/humanitarian-access): a completed high-encounter year on an assigned portfolio is a dated outcome she did not operationally command.

## What is established and what is not

Established: FY2022 high southwest encounters, independently reported, while she held a root-causes assignment.

Not established: that she ordered CBP releases, or a unique later city-budget coefficient as her personal tally.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

CBP and DHS ran the line. The president set enforcement weather.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Southwest border encounters remain at record levels during Harris’s migration assignment, not a later speech about Southwest border encounters remain at record levels during Harris’s migration assignment.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Southwest border encounters remain at record levels during Harris’s migration assignment on 2022-09-30 is not a licence to treat every later U.S. Customs and Border Protection communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Southwest border encounters remain at record levels during Harris’s migration assignment into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She held a diplomatic root-causes brief. CBP and DHS ran the line. The president set enforcement weather. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Kamala Harris: https://factrail.ai/people/kamala-harris

## Drivers

- Migration-policy restrictiveness and border control: https://factrail.ai/drivers/mig-policy-restrictiveness
- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-border-encounters-record-harris-migration-2022/
- https://www.cbp.gov/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-encounters-2022