In a late-night Friday news dump, the Biden administration announced 227,547 illegal immigrants were encountered at the southern border in September. That’s the highest September number in DHS history.
For the fiscal year that ended in September, that’s nearly 2.4 million illegal immigrant encounters – a new record and a 419 percent increase over the last full fiscal year of the Trump administration.
More than 4.7 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border since Biden took office – a stunning number that also includes the more than 900,000 “gotaways” who managed to escape Border Patrol and vanish into the country.
It’s not just border communities reeling from Biden’s border crisis; illicit drugs continue to flow into the country at an alarming rate as border officials struggle to contain the smuggling. In fact, 1,826 pounds of deadly fentanyl and 10,612 pounds of methamphetamine were seized at the southern border in September, with much more getting through undetected.
The Biden administration’s failure to secure the southern border is a dereliction of duty.
