By the Republican National Committee
A CRISIS AT THE BORDER
- Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data shows 179,725 illegal immigrants were encountered attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in April.
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<li>For 38 straight months, monthly encounters have been higher than even the <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration/fy-2019">highest</a> month seen under the previous administration.</li>
<li>Biden has <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1757523243999641852">yet to reverse</a> his policies that created this crisis in the first place.</li>
<li>On day one, President Trump will <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1764013764737630254">seal the border</a> and begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history. </li>
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<li>With roughly 6,000 daily encounters, this dwarfs the definition of a "crisis" set by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-era-border-numbers-dwarfing-obama-dhs-chiefs-standard-crisis-title-42-set-expire">Obama's DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson</a> when he said in 2019 that "more than 1,000" encounters a day "overwhelms the system."</li>
<li>April's 179,000-plus encounters is a 272 percent increase from the average number of April apprehensions during the Trump administration.
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<li><a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters">8,521 unaccompanied children</a> were encountered.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters">93,244 illegal immigrants</a> were encountered from countries outside the Northern Triangle and Mexico, showing that Biden's crisis is global.</li>
<li>At least <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics">80 people on the terror watchlist</a> have been encountered trying to enter the U.S. between ports of entry this fiscal year.</li>
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<li>More than <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters">9.6 million illegal immigrants</a> have crossed the border since Biden took office.
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<li>This includes the more than <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters">7.8 million illegal immigrants</a> that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has encountered and the <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1773413201008353581">1.8 million gotaways</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1702366435454984328">that have escaped past Border Patrol</a> into the U.S.</li>
<li>Border officials say that the <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2021/12/15/data-from-cbp-shows-how-many-illegal-immigrants-have-been-able-to-get-away-during-ongoing-crisis-n2600626">official number</a> of gotaways <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/nov/5/border-patrol-agent-says-12-million-illegal-immigr/">vastly undercounts</a> the illegal immigrants <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1636031650948689920">who make it into the U.S. </a></li>
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<li>Gotaways have <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1790783036713312574">exploded</a> under the Biden administration compared to the Trump and Obama years.</li>
<li>Biden has <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/many-migrants-left-in-legal-limbo-as-u-s-fails-to-file-cases-11662370201">installed a de facto amnesty program</a> in which <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1770606809944121754">200,000 deportation cases</a> have been thrown out due to his administration's failure to file the proper paperwork in time.</li>
<li>An average of <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1733585682818588894">5,000 illegal immigrants</a> are being released into the U.S. every day.
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<li>In FY 2023 alone, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/border-patrol-released-900000-migrants-us-southern-border-fy23">more than 900,000 illegal immigrants</a> were released into the interior of the U.S. and now await future immigration court dates.</li>
<li>Experts say the likelihood U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will remove them is "<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/two-million-immigrants-border-here-indefinitely">virtually nonexistent</a>" and that they "are here indefinitely, if not forever."</li>
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<li>Biden has <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-parole-biden-administration-1-million-migrants/">unilaterally paroled</a> over a million illegal immigrants using a 1950s law in an "<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-parole-migrants-us-expansion-biden/">unprecedented</a>" way.</li>
<li>The Biden administration has <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-01-18-new-data-reveal-worsening-magnitude-of-the-biden-border-crisis-and-lack-of-interior-immigration-enforcement.pdf#page=5">failed to remove</a> 99.7 percent of the illegal immigrants released into the interior of the U.S.</li>
<li>Homeland Security Investigations estimates that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/us/migrant-smuggling-evolution.html">Mexican cartels are now making $13 billion</a> a year smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S., 26 times what they made in 2018.</li>
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 percent being intercepted as border officials struggle to contain the smuggling.
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<li><a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/drug-seizure-statistics">1,336 pounds of deadly fentanyl</a> and <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/drug-seizure-statistics">8,769 pounds of methamphetamine</a> were seized at the southern border in April alone, with much more getting through undetected.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/record-fentanyl-seizures-at-border-contributed-to-soaring-overdose-deaths-in-us">Joshua Sharfstein</a> of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: "If they're seizing a lot, it's because a lot is coming in."</li>
<li>The amount of fentanyl seized in April is the equivalent of <a href="https://www.dea.gov/resources/facts-about-fentanyl">roughly 300 million</a> lethal doses.
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<li>Since Biden took office, roughly <a href="https://www.dea.gov/resources/facts-about-fentanyl">29.2 tons of fentanyl</a> have crossed the southern border, enough to kill roughly 13.3 billion people.</li>
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<li><a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fus%2Ffentanyl-overdoses-leading-cause-death-adults&data=05%7C01%7CDGriffin%40gop.com%7Cd567c77759194e10a70e08da9ff8b06c%7C4a082c81950a410d9618462a9c74d6ae%7C1%7C0%7C637998187719718491%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uNFh0704eJS2tlvaI6jhLIMwGoXdIjJOrIYgNXyzMUU%3D&reserved=0">Fentanyl</a> is now the leading cause of death for Americans age <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FRNCResearch%2Fstatus%2F1560649392180400135&data=05%7C01%7CDGriffin%40gop.com%7Cd567c77759194e10a70e08da9ff8b06c%7C4a082c81950a410d9618462a9c74d6ae%7C1%7C0%7C637998187719718491%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=5q6pvEEw2iTshQvxDLuzj6RpcvjfvW%2FeKohJx8HSgF8%3D&reserved=0">18 to 45</a>, with the number killed by the drug up <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/fentanyl-crisis-mexico-cartel">94 percent</a> since 2019.
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<li><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/12/28/1220881380/overdose-fentanyl-drugs-addiction#:~:text=In%202023%20the%20overdose%20death,for%20Disease%20Control%20and%20Prevention.&text=Biden%20administration%20officials%20say%20they%20have%20%22flattened%22%20the%20upward%20curve.">112,000 fatal drug overdoses</a> occurred in 2023, a new record high.</li>
<li>On average, one person in the U.S. now dies from a fentanyl overdose <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/fentanyl-crisis-mexico-cartel/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template&itid=lk_inline_manual_17&itid=lk_inline_manual_42">every seven minutes</a>.</li>
<li>The DEA seized a record <a href="https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2024/01/31/year-review-dea-rocky-mountain-field-division-sees-record-year-fentanyl">77 million fentanyl pills</a> and more than 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder in 2023, enough to kill every American.</li>
<li>According to <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1571978509785899008">Biden's own DEA Administrator Anne Milgram</a>, cartels are "killing Americans with fentanyl at catastrophic and record rates like we've never seen before."</li>
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BIDEN BREAKS RECORD AFTER RECORD
- FY 2023 saw nearly 2.5 million illegal immigrant encounters, surpassing the FY 2022 record.
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<li>The Biden administration has now set the all-time record for migrant encounters at the southern border for the last <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1715761839282553090">three years in a row</a>.</li>
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<li>169 people on the terror watchlist were <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/2023/10/26/factsheet-final-fy23-numbers-show-worst-year-at-americas-borders-ever/">encountered</a> at the southern border in FY 2023, breaking the all-time record of 98 set in FY 2022.
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<li>More people on the FBI terror watchlist have been arrested at the southern border this fiscal year than the previous <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1715770534687121781">six years combined</a>.</li>
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<li>More than 15,000 <a href="https://gazette.com/news/wex/border-arrests-of-illegal-immigrants-with-criminal-records-hit-new-high-in-2023/article_dbf3ba7f-3364-58a0-bab5-3bda0091d351.html">non-U.S. citizens with criminal convictions</a> were encountered at the southern border in FY 2023, a record high. </li>
<li>Biden's border crisis is so bad, CBP has needed to <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters">adjust</a> the y-axis on the illegal encounters graph <a href="https://gop.com/rapid-response/biden-border-crisis-literally-off-the-charts/">five times</a>.</li>
BIDEN'S DEADLY BORDER CRISIS CONTINUES TO WORSEN
- Despite Biden's promise of a "fair and humane immigration system," his open border policies aren't compassionate; they are deadly. In just the past month:
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<li>An illegal immigrant from Guatemala <a href="https://www.fox13news.com/news/dover-double-murder-courts-documents-reveal-suspects-possible-motive-for-killing-woman-child">brutally stabbed to death</a> his girlfriend and her four-year-old daughter at their home in Florida.</li>
<li>In Alabama, an illegal immigrant has been detained for causing a fatal crash that <a alias="killed a local teenager" conversion="false" data-linkto="https://" href="https://www.fox10tv.com/2024/05/08/teen-killed-deadly-semmes-wreck-by-suspected-drunk-driver/" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); text-decoration-line: none;" title="killed a local teenager"><span style="color:#0099ff;">killed a local teenager</span></a>, while being intoxicated at <a alias="four times the legal limit" conversion="false" data-linkto="https://" href="https://www.fox10tv.com/2024/05/10/da-drivers-alcohol-level-nearly-four-times-limit-during-wrong-way-semmes-crash/" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);" title="four times the legal limit"><span style="color:#0099ff;">four times the legal limit</span></a>. </li>
<li>Two girls under the age of 13 were <a href="https://www.tampafp.com/illegal-immigrant-charged-in-michigan-after-home-invasion-sexual-assault-of-2-young-girls/">sexually assaulted</a> by an illegal immigrant who broke into their home, threatening to kill them if they screamed or tried to escape.</li>
<li>A 32-year-old illegal immigrant lured a woman into a Denver shelter for migrants and <a href="https://denvergazette.com/news/denver-immigrant-shelter-sexual-assault/article_d7cda6f4-fc31-11ee-9c3e-fb2854a78415.html">raped</a> her; police are now investigating whether there are other victims.</li>
<li>Kurt Englehart, senior advisor to Senator Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-NV) was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-senator-open-border-migrant-killed-staffer-illegally-entered-us">killed in a car accident</a> involving an illegal immigrant, who was charged with failing to stop at the scene of the accident.</li>
<li>Four illegal immigrants are facing federal charges for a <a href="https://www.themainewire.com/2024/04/illegal-immigrant-gang-facing-federal-charges-after-five-year-crime-spree-robbing-home-depots-across-new-england-and-beyond/">year-long shoplifting spree</a> at Home Depots across New England. </li>
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<li>At least <a href="https://twitter.com/BPUnion/status/1746570419027796223">2,297 people</a> have died attempting to cross the southern border under three years of Biden, more than double the number that died under the entire previous administration.
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<li>A senior Border Patrol agent in Arizona is warning that soaring temperatures could lead to an "<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/arizona-migrant-deaths-summer-heat-desert-cbp-1888623">unprecedented</a>" number of deaths among migrants crossing the border in the coming months.</li>
<li>Border officials in Maverick County, Texas recover <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2024/texas-border-eagle-pass-migrant-deaths/">one or two people who drown</a> in the Rio Grande nearly every day, while years ago it would have only been one or two per month.
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<li>First responders in the county have <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2024/texas-border-eagle-pass-migrant-deaths/">run out of body bags</a> and burial plots amid soaring deaths of those attempting to cross the southern border.</li>
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<li>Tens of thousands of migrant children who have come to the U.S. are being exploited and forced into de facto "<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html">indentured servitude</a>."
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<li>Biden's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) lost track of 85,000 children after responding to Biden's demands to "<a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2023%2F02%2F25%2Fus%2Funaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html&data=05%7C01%7Ctpigott%40gop.com%7Cd6c5e6ce61c24a8fb95f08db1903f743%7C4a082c81950a410d9618462a9c74d6ae%7C1%7C0%7C638131277090675390%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ABrvPNJ0qi5UIAzWV3C9w0MlrTZX4yct7jvm2jGHUVY%3D&reserved=0">move the children quickly out of shelters</a>" by rolling back important vetting and safeguard procedures.</li>
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<li>Criminals are flooding across the border, with Border Patrol arresting illegal immigrants accused of <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/del-rio-cbp-officers-apprehend-man-wanted-aggravated-sexual-assault">sexual assault of a child</a>, <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/progreso-cbp-officers-apprehend-man-wanted-sexual-assault-child">possession of child pornography</a>, and <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-san-antonio-removes-noncitizen-wanted-homicide-mexico">homicide</a>.
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<li>Border Patrol has <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics">arrested</a> more than 10,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions and 295 gang members so far in FY 2024.</li>
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<li>Meanwhile, Border Patrol agents have been left demoralized and "<a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/border-patrol-chiefs-bidens-border-crisis-is-overwhelming/">overwhelmed</a>" by the Biden administration's handling of the crisis.</li>
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 actions on immigration, including halting construction of the border wall and ending the successful "Remain in Mexico" policy.
- By his three-year mark, Biden had taken 535 executive actions related to immigration.
- Biden's new FY 2025 budget proposal calls for eliminating $50 million in border wall funding.
- Illegal immigrants have confirmed this: "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 immigrants during the summer of 2021.
- It's not just Biden; Democrats in Congress have consistently voted for policies that make the border and country less secure.
Originally posted here. - Democrats aided sanctuary cities and sent stimulus checks to illegal immigrants, opposed legislation to fund Title 42, and repeatedly voted against funding the border wall.
- Democrats voted against hiring more border agents, deporting felons, preventing illegal immigrants convicted of crimes from becoming permanent residents — and voted against strengthening the successful Remain in Mexico policy.
- Democrats voted against funding for counternarcotic operations and ensuring the enforcement of immigration laws at the border.
- Democrats voted against ensuring all local and state law enforcement are permitted to cooperate with federal immigration officials to track illegal immigrants.
