16,794 total encounters per cbp. that s more than 1200% increase over five years. certain areas are busier than others, here in the del rio sector crossing activity has gradually claimed according to agents and the flow continues to place burdens on small bore kerr communities like here in eagle pass. certainly, there s a concern because the large number of people that have actually been coming into our community that has been processed and then pretty much they hang around here to wait for their transportation into the interior of the united states. now, that dhs court paper work shows a total of more than one million southern border encounters for fiscal year 2022, which by the way, started back on october 1st. so, we re looking at six months
we combat that. the wall is not going to help with any of that. let s go to the senate floor and listen to senator chuck schumer. taxpayer to pony up for an expensive and ineffective border wall in a the president promised mexico would pay for it make no mistake, the trump shutdown is not about bore kerr security. all of the proposals we have made continue over $1 billion in new border security money, the same amount allocated last year by both parties and even the president agreed to. and the trump administration has barely even spent any of the border security money from last year. so the trump shutdown isn t over border security. it s because president trump is demanding billions of dollars for an expensive, ineffective wall that the majority of americans don t support. let me remind you, the president calls for a shutdown no less
falsehood after falsehood on topics ranging from the humanitarian crisis at the bore kerr, to russia s annex of crimea, to paul manafort and his campaign. his former campaign chief is in jail right now. trump s lawyer is signaling that pardons not just for manafort could be coming. a judge in washington today ruled that manafort be taken into custody after mull ear s team alleged he was conspiring to obstruct justice and tamper with witnesses in his investigation. manafort pleaded not guilty to the new charges and with mueller fuelling and putting pressure on manafort to flip, rudy giuliani said in an interview things might get cleaned up with some presidential pardons. the president himself weighed in calling the judge s ruling quote very unfair. moments before all of this, he spoke to reporters about the legal situation facing his former campaign chief. i think a lot of it is very