The Patriot Post® · RNC: Biden's Border Crisis Bursts New Record
By the Republican National Committee
BIDEN’S BORDER CRISIS CONTINUES TO WORSEN
- New data shows 240,988 illegal immigrants1 were encountered attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in October – the highest total for October in DHS history2.
- For 32 straight months, monthly encounters have been higher than even the highest3 month seen under the previous administration.
- With roughly 7,700 daily encounters, this dwarfs the definition of a “crisis” set by Obama’s DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson4 when he said in 2019 that “more than 1,000” encounters a day “overwhelms the system.”
- October’s 240,000-plus encounters is a 353 percent increase from the average number of October apprehensions from 2017-2020.
- 11,522 unaccompanied children1 were encountered.
- 106,290 migrants1 who crossed as part of a family were encountered.
- 125,071 illegal immigrants1 were encountered from countries outside the Northern Triangle and Mexico, showing that Biden’s crisis is global.
- At least 12 people on the terror watchlist5 were encountered trying to enter the U.S. between ports of entry.
- More than 8.2 million illegal immigrants1 have crossed the border since Biden took office.
- This includes the 6.5 million illegal immigrants1 that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has encountered and the more than 1.7 million gotaways6 that have escaped past Border Patrol7 into the U.S.
- Border officials say the official number8 of gotaways vastly undercounts9 the illegal immigrants who make it into the U.S.10
- Biden has installed a de facto amnesty program11 in which over 75,00012 illegal immigrants13 have had their cases dismissed in court due to his administration’s failure to file the proper paperwork.
- In FY 2023 alone, more than 900,000 illegal immigrants14 were released into the U.S. to await future immigration court dates.
- Experts say the likelihood U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will remove them is “virtually nonexistent15” and that they “are here indefinitely, if not forever.”
- Biden has unilaterally paroled16 over half a million migrants using a 1950s law in an “unprecedented” way.
- Homeland Security Investigations estimates Mexican cartels are now making $13 billion17 a year smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S., 26 times what they made in 2018.
DRUGS ARE POURING OVER THE BORDER INTO OUR COMMUNITIES
- Illicit drugs are flowing into the country at an alarming rate, with only 5 to 10 percent18 being intercepted as border officials struggle to contain the smuggling.
- 1,318 pounds of deadly fentanyl19 and 9,539 pounds of methamphetamine19 were seized at the southern border in October alone, with much more getting through.
- Joshua Sharfstein20 of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: “If they’re seizing a lot, it’s because a lot is coming in.”
- The amount of fentanyl seized in October is the equivalent of roughly 300 million21 lethal doses.
- Since Biden took office, more than 24 tons of fentanyl21 have crossed the southern border, enough to kill roughly 11 billion people.
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Fentanyl22 is now the leading cause of death for Americans age 18 to 4523, with the number killed by the drug up 94 percent24 since 2019.
- Of the 110,000 fatal drug overdoses in 2022, two-thirds25 involved fentanyl; on average, one person in the U.S. now dies from a fentanyl overdose every seven minutes18.
- According to Biden’s own DEA Administrator Anne Milgram26, cartels are “killing Americans with fentanyl at catastrophic and record rates like we’ve never seen before.”
BIDEN BREAKS RECORD AFTER RECORD
- FY 2023 saw nearly 2.5 million illegal immigrant encounters, surpassing last year’s record27.
- The Biden administration has now set the all-time record for illegal immigrant encounters at the southern border for the last three years in a row28.
- 169 people on the terror watchlist were encountered at the southern border in FY 2023, breaking the all-time record of 9829 set last year.
- More people on the FBI terror watchlist have been arrested at the southern border this fiscal year than the previous six years combined30.
- More than 15,000 non-U.S. citizens with criminal convictions31 were encountered at the southern border in FY 2023, a record high.
BIDEN IGNORES THE SOUTHERN BORDER AS HIS HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE WORSENS
- Despite Biden’s promise of a “fair and humane immigration system32,” his open border policies aren’t compassionate; they are deadly.
- Last month, ICE arrested an illegal immigrant who was wanted in Senegal for alleged terrorist activities33 just weeks after Border Patrol released him into the U.S.
- A few weeks ago, two illegal immigrants were arrested34 after leading Texas DPS on a high-speed car chase that reached speeds of 90 mph+ and nearly struck a school bus.
- At the beginning of this month, a man convicted of murder in Venezuela35 was found to be living in state-funded migrant housing in Massachusetts just months after Border Patrol released him into the U.S.
- Tens of thousands of migrant children who have come to the U.S. are being exploited and forced into de facto “indentured servitude36.”
- Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) lost track of 85,000 children after responding to Biden’s demands to “move the children quickly out of shelters37” by rolling back important vetting and safeguard procedures.
- Criminals are flooding across the border, with Border Patrol arresting illegal immigrants accused of felony rape38, lewd and lascivious acts towards a minor39, fraud40, and homicide41 all within the past month.
- Meanwhile, Border Patrol agents have been left demoralized and “overwhelmed42” by the Biden administration’s handling of the crisis.
BIDEN AND DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS ARE TO BLAME FOR THE BORDER CRISIS
- Biden’s failed policies have created the crisis at the southern border.
- In Biden’s first 100 days he took more than 94 executive actions43 on immigration, including halting construction44 of the border wall and ending45 the successful “Remain in Mexico” policy.
- Illegal immigrants have confirmed this46: “The border is open…everybody believes that the border is open. It’s open because we enter. We come in, free, no problem…We came illegally.”
- The Biden administration lost track of at least 150,000 illegal immigrants47 during the summer of 2021.
- Joe Biden and “border czar” Kamala Harris are no where to be seen48, with each49 only having visited the border once50 since taking office.
- It’s not just Biden; Democrats in Congress have consistently voted for policies that make the border and country less secure.
- Democrats aided sanctuary cities51 and sent stimulus checks52 to illegal immigrants53, opposed54 legislation55 to fund Title 42, and repeatedly56 voted57 against funding the border wall.
- Democrats voted against hiring more border agents58, deporting felons59, preventing60 illegal immigrants convicted of crimes from becoming permanent residents — and voted61 against62 strengthening the successful62 Remain in Mexico policy.
- Democrats voted against funding for counternarcotic operations63 and ensuring the enforcement64 of immigration laws at the border.
- Democrats voted against ensuring65 all local and state law enforcement are permitted to cooperate with federal immigration officials to track illegal immigrants.
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