The border crime surge

Joe Biden’s border crisis has created a crime surge.

According to FBI Director Christopher Wray, as Biden’s border crisis rages there is an “epidemic” of lethal drug smuggling, human trafficking, sex trafficking, gang activity, and forced labor at the border.

FBI Director Christopher Wray: “no question” that "extremely concerning" Mexican cartel activity “is spilling over in all sorts of ways” into the United States because of Biden's border crisis pic.twitter.com/xjuCFQaNIs

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 10, 2021

Here are just a few of the ways Biden’s border crisis is endangering Americans:

• More fentanyl has been seized at the border in 2021 than in all of 2020, with Texas alone seizing enough fentanyl to kill 21.5 million people.
• Many Americans living in border communities are afraid to leave their homes as smugglers race across their property.
• Border agents have encountered MS-13 gang members and people on the terror watchlist trying to illegally cross the border.

But as cartels ramp up their activity in the U.S. and as many as 1,500 illegal immigrants escape into the country unpursued every day, Biden is functionally abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, tying the hands of officers enforcing immigration law internally in the U.S.

Gov. Greg Abbott discussed how Biden is failing border states like his on the Real America podcast, describing the crisis and correctly calling Biden an “absentee landlord.”  But unlike Biden, Gov. Abbott is stepping up to secure the border – Biden should follow his lead.

Biden’s agenda has empowered cartels and criminal organizations. If he truly wants to combat crime, he should reverse his failed policies.