More than 4.7 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border since Biden took office
WASHINGTON – Today, Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel released the following statement on the September border encounters:
“This is a failure. Joe Biden and Democrats created a humanitarian crisis at our southern border that only worsens, yet they can’t be bothered to fix it. As Democrats turn a blind eye to the devastation they created, Americans face the consequences every day as deadly fentanyl pours into our neighborhoods and crime surges across the country. Republicans know families deserve to feel safe, but it’s clear Democrats couldn’t care less.”
Background:
- Newly released Customs and Border Protection data from a late-night Friday news dump shows 227,547 illegal immigrants were apprehended attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in September, making this the highest September in DHS history.
- That is a 374 percent increase from the average number of September apprehensions during the Trump administration.
- 11,900 unaccompanied children were apprehended.
- 128,121 illegal immigrants were apprehended from countries outside the Northern Triangle and Mexico, showing that Biden’s crisis is global.
- 98 people on the terror watchlist have been apprehended trying to enter the U.S. between ports of entry since the fiscal year began last October.
- More than 2.3 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border this fiscal year, a new record.
- This is a 37 percent increase over the record breaking FY2021 encounters and a 419 percent increase over FY2020 under the Trump administration.
- More than 4.7 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border since Biden took office.
- This includes the nearly 3.8 million illegal immigrants that Customs and Border Protection has apprehended and the over 900,000 gotaways that have escaped past Border Patrol into the U.S.
- Border officials say that the official number of gotaways vastly undercounts the illegal immigrants who make it into the U.S.
- Joshua Sharfstein 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 September is the equivalent of more than 414 million lethal doses.
- More fentanyl has crossed the border in the last two months under Biden than in all of FY 2019 under President Trump’s leadership.
- 1,826 pounds of deadly fentanyl and 10,612 pounds of methamphetamine were seized at the southern border in September alone, with much more likely getting through.
