President Joe Biden presided over the largest surge in immigration, the majority of it illegal, in the history of the United States.
The New York Times arrived at the conclusion based on an analysis of government data.
The report said that from 2021 to 2023, the total net migration into the U.S. was 2.4 million, meaning the total number of people minus the people who left.
It is estimated that more than eight million people entered the country over the course of Biden’s presidency, the report said, a number greater than the populations of at least 38 states.
The real number is likely much higher, potentially by about two million, as illegal aliens who evade capture by border officials — known as “gotaways”— were not included in the numbers.
The surge in illegal immigration has “caused the share of the U.S. population born in another country to reach a new high, 15.2 percent in…
