RNC Statement on Biden's Meeting with Mexican President and Ongoing Border Crisis

WASHINGTON – Today, Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel released the following statement on Biden’s meeting with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador:

“Biden created the worst border crisis in DHS history, but does not care to visit the border to see the dire consequences of his agenda. Biden and Democrats are only making this humanitarian crisis worse, refuse to change course, and will pay the price at the ballot box in November.”

Background:

• In May, 239,416 illegal immigrants were apprehended attempting to cross the southern border, making this the highest one-month total in DHS history. 
  • It’s a 32 percent increase over last May, and a 300 percent increase from the average number of May apprehensions during the Trump administration.
• More than 3.7 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border since Biden took office.
• This includes the 2.9 million illegal immigrants that Customs and Border Protection have apprehended and almost  800,000 gotaways that have escaped into the U.S. undetected.
• 1,101 pounds of deadly fentanyl and 10,528 pounds of methamphetamine were seized at the southern border in May alone, this being only a fraction of what is coming into the U.S. as border officials struggle to contain the smuggling.
• The amount of fentanyl seized in May is the equivalent of more than 249 million lethal doses.