[OC] Wo Einwanderer Ende 2023 gelandet sind

In before this gets locked

* Sources: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security. Note: These figures are for fiscal year 2023, which starts in October 2022 and ends in September 2023.
* Tools: RAWGraphs, Illustrator

“We have an underfunded immigration apparatus that is swaddled in bureaucracy, complicated beyond imagination, bound by decades-old international agreements, paralyzed by divisive politics and barely functional under the best of circumstances,” write Steven Rattner and Maureen White.

“Now we face the terrible consequences. In fiscal year 2023 alone (from October 2022 to September 2023), the United States had two and a half million “encounters” along its 2,000-mile border with Mexico, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. That is over two and a half times the number just four years ago, overwhelming the ability of governmental bodies — border patrol, immigration courts, human services agencies — to manage the flow,” they say.

Read the rest of the story [here, for free](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/09/opinion/immigration-in-one-chart.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RE4.THfw.OHySVfN60naI&smid=re-nytopinion), without a subscription to The New York Times.

That is about 0.7% of the population of the US if you add estimated undetected and legal entrants pending proceedings.

Edit: changed it from 0.6 to 0.7 bc I remembered us pop wrong originally