Billed codified 5,000 “encounters” per day (and up to 8500 in one day) before a “Border Emergency”…

…could be declared. (How many “got aways” per “encounter”?)

Per Pew Research:

“ The Border Patrol recorded 237,538 encounters with migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in the 2025 fiscal year, which began in October 2024 and ended in September 2025. That was down from more than 1.5 million encounters in fiscal 2024, more than 2 million in fiscal 2023 and a record of more than 2.2 million in fiscal 2022. The 2025 total was the lowest in any fiscal year since 1970, according to historical data from the Border Patrol.”

Bill sought to codify an “encounter” figure as “better” based on Biden Administration’s deliberate ineptitude at the border that led to insanely inflated figures to begin with.

Working off of those figures to codify acceptable “improvement” was the problem enough people saw through.