Biden’s Border Crisis Is Getting Worse

BIDEN’S BORDER CRISIS RAGES ON

Border apprehensions continued to rise in April, with 178,622 migrants caught trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
- This is the highest one-month total in 20 years.
- It’s nearly a 270 percent increase from the average number of April apprehensions during the Trump administration.
Of the over 178,000 migrants taken into custody in April, 17,171 were unaccompanied minors.
- This is the second highest one-month total in the Border Patrol’s 96-year history.
Just 35 percent of family units were expelled in April, disproving Biden’s claim that the “vast majority of the families” crossing the border illegally are being sent back.
The Biden administration attempted to bury these numbers by releasing them after hours and with no notice to media.

BORDER AND IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS ARE OVERWHELMED

While border crossings are at a 20-year high, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportations have fallen to the lowest level on record.
- This is a direct result of the restrictions Biden has put on ICE.
According to projections from border officials, there are currently 1,500 illegal immigrants entering the U.S. every day due to agents being overwhelmed with high levels of crossings.
- That is a 50 percent increase from the estimated 1,000 per day last month.
Border agents are “stretched so thin” that Texas sheriff’s deputies must “do the job of the federal government.”
While the Biden administration is declaring victory, claiming that overcrowded detention facilities are no longer a problem, they have simply shifted the problem to HHS facilities which are now nearing capacity.
- Texas Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar said that the Biden administration is engaged in a “shell game” to hide the problem.
- The number of migrant children in government custody more than doubled in the past two months.
- It is projected that nearly 184,000 migrant children will cross the border by the end of FY 2021, which would be the highest number ever.
The Biden administration estimates it will need another $4 billion before the end of FY 2021 for migrant care.

THE BORDER CRISIS IS A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

Heartbreaking firsthand accounts of those traveling across the border describe the horrors of human smuggling, sexual assault, and violence.
- A 2020 study found that of 480 Central Americans interviewed, nearly 60 percent were exposed to some sort of violence during their trek through Mexico.
- Recently, five young migrant girls—each under the age of seven—were found abandoned, hungry, and crying by a Texas farmer.
- Captured on video, two young girls were dropped by smugglers over a 14-foot-wall.
Border Patrol are finding small children who are left to fend for themselves, which one Patrol Agent says “happens far too often now.”
Tens of thousands of migrant children are currently being held in an “opaque network of some 200 facilities” throughout twenty-four states.
- There are reports of children coming out sick and infested with lice.

BIDEN AND HARRIS ARE TO BLAME FOR THIS CRISIS, AND ARE DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT

Biden named Harris as his crisis manager for the border, but she is nowhere to be found, having gone 49 days without visiting the border or holding a news conference.
The border crisis and its devastation are a direct result of Biden’s reckless open border policies.
- Illegal immigrants say they are coming because of Biden, with some even wearing Biden t-shirts.
- Mexican officials say Biden’s immigration policies are “stoking illegal immigration and creating business for organized crime.”
- Internal Mexican government assessmentssay one of the reasons for increased illegal immigration is Biden’s “suspension of Trump-era accords that deported people to Central America.”
A majority of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of the border crisis.