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During his first formal presidential news conference on March 25, Joe Biden took a flurry of questions about the U.S.-Mexico border, where rising numbers of migrants – especially unaccompanied children – are stressing the asylum system. Reporters asked the president, among other things, about his responsibility for the increase, the crush of minors arriving at the border and when immigration authorities would allow news media in to view the conditions under which children are being held. Biden resolutely defended his administration’s actions against Republican critics who say his pro-immigrant policies and rhetoric are encouraging migrants to come and precipitating a crisis. Among other things, he said the rise in attempted border crossings is seasonal and driven by deep social problems in Central America that go beyond U.S. policy. And he said it would simply be wrong to turn unaccompanied children away without trying to connect them to family members. But in his remarks, Biden also exaggerated or cited some incorrect statistics about the number of migrants now and during the Donald Trump administration. Polygraph.info reviewed four claims. Migrants approach the U.S. border on Gateway International Bridge in Brownsville, Texas, on March 2, 2021. Who’s being sent back? Biden correctly declared that the vast majority
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