The Patriot Post® · RNC: Border Czar Harris Fails Americans With Open Border Policies

By the Republican National Committee

ANOTHER MONTH OF HARRIS’ BORDER CRISIS, NO END IN SIGHT

• Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data shows 130,419 illegal immigrants¹ were encountered attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in June.
  • The Biden-Harris administration has yet to reverse² their policies that created this crisis, instead signing a toothless executive order that has had no impact³ on daily crossings⁴.
  • For 39 months straight since Kamala Harris became Biden’s border czar⁵, monthly encounters¹ surpassed even the highest⁶ month under the last administration.
  • Rather than secure the border, the Biden-Harris administration has instead worked to conceal the true number of illegal immigrants allowed in⁷ by funneling them through Ports of Entry.
    • Those entering the United States through Ports of Entry using the CBP One app are excluded from the total number of illegal immigrants⁸ reported by CBP.
  • On day one, President Trump will seal the border⁹ and begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.
• With roughly 4,300 daily encounters, this dwarfs the definition of a “crisis” set by Obama’s DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson¹⁰ when he said in 2019 that “more than 1,000” encounters a day “overwhelms the system.”
• June’s 130,000-plus encounters is a 158 percent increase from the average number of June apprehensions during the Trump administration.
  • 7,427 unaccompanied children¹ were encountered.
  • 63,784 illegal immigrants¹ were encountered from countries outside the Northern Triangle and Mexico, showing that Harris’ crisis is global.
  • At least 93 people on the terror watchlist¹¹ have been encountered trying to enter the U.S. between ports of entry this fiscal year.
• 9.9 million illegal immigrants¹ have crossed the border since Biden and Harris took office.
  • This includes the 8.1 million illegal immigrants¹ that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has encountered and the more than 1.8 million gotaways¹² that have escaped past Border Patrol¹³ into the U.S.
  • Border officials say that the official number¹⁴ of gotaways vastly undercounts¹⁵ the illegal immigrants who make it into the U.S.¹⁶
  • Gotaways have exploded¹⁷ under the Biden-Harris administration compared to the Trump and Obama years.
  • More illegal immigrants have been encountered at our nation’s borders under Biden and Harris than all two-term presidents¹⁸.

HARRIS HAS FAILED TO PUSH BACK ON POLICIES LEGALIZING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

• Since day one, Biden and Harris have sought to legalize illegal immigration.
• Biden and Harris announced a new mass amnesty¹⁹ policy to shield half a million illegal immigrants²⁰ from deportation.
• Biden and Harris unveiled a toothless executive order that allows thousands²¹ of unvetted illegal immigrants to enter the United States every day.
  • Biden and Harris’ DHS Secretary assured that Biden’s empty executive order won’t stop illegal immigration²² – just facilitate a more expedited and orderly entry for millions of unvetted illegal immigrants from all over the world.
  • Biden and Harris’ new order will fast-pass the entry of even more illegal immigrants into the country by simply routing them²³ to ports of entry — where they’ll be processed and released into the country to await adjudication years from now. 
• Biden and Harris installed a de facto amnesty program²⁴ in which 200,000 deportation cases²⁵ have been thrown out due to his administration’s failure to file the proper paperwork in time.
• Biden and Harris have unilaterally paroled²⁶ over a million illegal immigrants using a 1950s law in an “unprecedented²⁷” way.
• An average of 5,000 illegal immigrants²⁸ are being released into the U.S. every day.
  • In FY 2023 alone, more than 900,000 illegal immigrants²⁹ were released into the interior of the U.S. and now await future immigration court dates.
  • Experts say the likelihood U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will remove them is “virtually nonexistent³⁰” and that they “are here indefinitely, if not forever.”
  • Biden and Harris’ Department of Homeland Security admitted that more than 40 percent³¹ of catch and release migrants have totally disappeared.
• The Biden and Harris administration lost track of at least 150,000 illegal immigrants³² during the summer of 2021.
• The Biden and Harris administration has failed to remove³³ 99.7 percent of the illegal immigrants released into the interior of the U.S.

DRUGS ARE POURING OVER HARRIS’ OPEN BORDER INTO OUR COMMUNITIES

• Illicit drugs are flowing into the country at an alarming rate, with only 5 to 10 percent³⁴ being intercepted as border officials struggle to contain the smuggling.
  • 1,359 pounds of deadly fentanyl³⁵ and 9,614 pounds of methamphetamine³⁵ were seized at the southern border in June alone, with much more getting through.
  • Joshua Sharfstein³⁶ 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 June is the equivalent of roughly 308 million³⁷ lethal doses.
    • Since Biden and Harris took office, roughly 31 tons of fentanyl³⁷ have crossed the southern border, enough to kill roughly 14.1 billion people.
• Fentanyl³⁸ is now the leading cause of death for Americans age 18 to 45³⁹, with the number killed by the drug up 94 percent⁴⁰ since 2019.
  • 112,000 fatal drug overdoses⁴¹ occurred in 2023, a new record high.
  • On average, one person in the U.S. now dies from a fentanyl overdose every seven minutes³⁴.
  • The DEA seized a record 77 million fentanyl pills⁴² and more than 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder in 2023, enough to kill every American.
  • According to Biden’s own DEA Administrator Anne Milgram⁴³, cartels are “killing Americans with fentanyl at catastrophic and record rates like we’ve never seen before.”

HARRIS’ OPEN BORDER HAS BROKEN RECORD AFTER RECORD

• FY 2023 saw nearly 2.5 million encounters, surpassing last year’s record⁴⁴.
  • The Biden-Harris administration has now set the all-time record for migrant encounters at the southern border for the last three years in a row⁴⁵. 
• 169 people on the terror watchlist were encountered at the southern border in FY 2023, breaking the all-time record of 98⁴⁶ 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 combined⁴⁷.
• More than 15,000 non-U.S. citizens with criminal convictions⁴⁸ were encountered at the southern border in FY 2023, a record high.
• Harris’ border crisis is so bad, CBP has needed to adjust¹ the y-axis on the illegal encounters graph five times⁴⁹.

HARRIS’ DEADLY BORDER CRISIS CONTINUES TO WORSEN

• Despite Biden and Harris’ promise of a “fair and humane immigration system⁵⁰,” their open border policies aren’t compassionate; they are deadly. In just the past month:
  • A 12-year-old girl in Houston, TX was shackled, sexually assaulted, and strangled to death⁵¹ by two illegal immigrants vetted and released⁵² by federal authorities earlier this year.
  • Two Chick-fil-A employees in Irving, TX were murdered⁵³ in broad daylight after a 37-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador shot up the restaurant.
  • A 22-year-old volleyball coach in Albuquerque, NM was killed and two others were wounded⁵⁴ after an illegal immigrant⁵⁵ crashed while driving recklessly under the influence.
  • A 6-year-old girl in Summerdale, AL was killed⁵⁶ after an illegal immigrant crashed while driving under the influence, causing the young girl to be trapped under the rolled car.
  • An elderly man in Uvalde, TX was stabbed⁵⁷ by an illegal immigrant who broke into his home after previously fleeing from a traffic stop⁵⁸.
  • A 21-year-old woman in Syracuse, NY was suffocated to death⁵⁹ by an illegal immigrant who crossed the southern border supposedly seeking asylum and released by authorities. 
• At least 2,297 people⁶⁰ have died attempting to cross the southern border under three years of Biden and Harris, more than double the number that died under the entire previous administration. 
  • A senior Border Patrol agent in Arizona has warned that soaring temperatures could cause an “unprecedented⁶¹” number of deaths among migrants crossing the border.
• Tens of thousands of migrant children who have come to the U.S. are being exploited and forced into de facto “indentured servitude⁶².”
  • Biden and Harris’ 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 shelters⁶²” by rolling back important vetting and safeguard procedures.
• Criminals are flooding across the border, with Border Patrol arresting illegal immigrants accused of homicide⁶³, rape⁶⁴, assault⁶⁵, drug trafficking⁶⁶, and human smuggling⁶⁷, all within the past month.
  • Border Patrol have arrested⁶⁸ more than 13,700 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions and 360 gang members so far in FY 2024.
• Meanwhile, Border Patrol agents have been left demoralized and “overwhelmed⁶⁹” by the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the crisis. 
  • This year alone, there have been more than 460 assaults⁷⁰ on our brave Border Patrol agents.
• Homeland Security Investigations estimates that Mexican cartels are now making $13 billion⁷¹ a year smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S., 26 times what they made in 2018.

Originally posted here⁷².