There has been an unprecedented number of illegal encounters at the border, and the Biden administration is absurdly bragging about it.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is taking a victory lap over "6,300 [illegal immigrant encounters] on Friday and about 4,200 yesterday."
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 14, 2023
THAT IS NOT NORMAL! Even former Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson says 1,000/day "overwhelms the system." pic.twitter.com/ImyRsbWAnj
Last week, encounters approached – and on multiple days passed – 10,000 per day. We’ll let former DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson put those crisis-level numbers in perspective.
Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson in 2019: "I know that 1,000 [illegal border crossings] overwhelms the system. I cannot begin to imagine what 4,000/day looks like."
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 15, 2023
Last week, illegal border crossings topped 10,000/day. pic.twitter.com/tvw9O4HWWO
Reminder: the number of encounters does not include the 1.4 million “gotaways” who have evaded officials and escaped into the U.S. since Joe Biden took office.
Last week alone, there were 83,000 illegal border crossings. Anyone in government who thinks that’s a number worth celebrating should resign.
