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I got a little curious too and just did a small amount of digging. The DHS latest report (Q2 FY 2023) can be found here:
https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/special-reports/legal-immigration
“About 11,700 refugees were admitted to the United States in FY 2023 Q2 (Table 2), a 113 percent increase from FY 2022 Q2, when only about 5,500 refugees were admitted.”
So about 4000 a month, 1000 per week and 150 per day.
That includes countries other than South America:
“76 percent of refugees arrived from the top five countries of nationality: Democratic Republic of Congo, Burma, Syria, Afghanistan, and Colombia“
I haven’t found a great source on illegal immigration yet.
Edit: I got also got curious about the scale of this number so I looked up births per day (from some random sites) in the US and it seems like that’s about 10,000. Number of deaths per day seems to be around 8,000. So a net of about 2,000 people are added to the US per day “naturally”.
Last edit: Found some info by the cbp: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters
Looks like an increase but nothing crazy. I don’t know what an “encounter” is either.
That Vox link said 300k in December 2023
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters