In A Late-Night Monday News Dump, DHS Confirmed That Biden’s Border Crisis Is Showing No Sign Of Slowing Down With Over 230,000 Apprehensions In October Alone

THE WORST OCTOBER AT THE BORDER ON RECORD 

• Newly released Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data from a late-night Monday news dump shows 230,678 illegal immigrants were apprehended attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in October, making this the highest total for October in DHS history.
  • That is a 334 percent increase from the average number of October apprehensions from 2017 – 2020.
  • 12,034 unaccompanied children were apprehended.
  • 9 people on the terror watchlist were apprehended trying to enter the U.S. between ports of entry last month.
  • 130,039 illegal immigrants were apprehended from countries outside the Northern Triangle and Mexico, showing that Biden’s crisis is global.
• 5 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border since Biden took office.
  • This includes the more than 4 million illegal immigrants that Customs and Border Protection has apprehended and the roughly 1 million 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.
  • Despite this ongoing crisis, Biden’s DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claimed today that the border is “secure.”
• In an attempt to find a scapegoat for the border crisis, Biden’s hand-picked head of CBP Chris Magnus is out of a job – yet Border Patrol agents say “the core problem remains – Biden, Harris and Mayorkas.”
• Biden has installed a de facto amnesty program in which nearly 50,000 illegal immigrants have had their cases dismissed in court due to his administration’s failure to file the proper paperwork.
• Homeland Security Investigations estimates that Mexican cartels are now making $13 billion a year smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S, 26 times what they made in 2018.

DRUGS ARE POURING OVER THE BORDER INTO OUR COMMUNITIES

• Illicit drugs are flowing into the country at an alarming rate, with only a fraction being intercepted as border officials struggle to contain the smuggling.
• 1,906 pounds of deadly fentanyl and 10,518 pounds of methamphetamine were seized at the southern border in October alone, with much more getting through.
  • 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 October is the equivalent of more than 432 million lethal doses.  
• Deadly rainbow fentanyl, which is designed by cartels to target children and teens, has been increasingly caught crossing the border and is now in at least 26 states.
  • This surge in rainbow fentanyl has deadly consequences, as fentanyl overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans age 18 to 45 and synthetic opioid deaths have skyrocketed 80 percent in two years.
• The DEA’s St. Louis Division broke its fentanyl seizure record in FY 2022 with 671 pounds seized, a staggering 41 percent increase from FY 2021 and more fentanyl seized than the last two years combined.
• In Nogales, Arizona, five drug busts over the course of one weekend ended in the seizure of more than half a million fentanyl pills.

BIDEN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR A HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE AT THE BORDER

• Despite Biden’s promise of a “fair and humane immigration system,” his open border policies aren’t compassionate; they are deadly.
• In October, at least 25 illegal immigrants died attempting to cross the southern border.
  • This follows the deadliest year at the southwest border in history when 856 illegal migrants died.
• In Brooks County, Texas, two migrants were killed and 12 others injured when a suspected human trafficker crashed while attempting to evade police and managed to flee the scene.
• In Hidalgo County, Texas, at least one migrant died after 12 people were ejected from a pickup truck evading law enforcement.
• In Edwards County, Texas, a high-speed chase involving human smuggling ended with one illegal immigrant dead and four others injured when their vehicle rolled over into a river.
• In Laredo, Texas one morgue has become so overrun from recent illegal immigrant deaths, specifically from drowning, that “some remains are stacked three to a table,” and “outside, three portable refrigerated trailers hold an overflow of patients.”
• Meanwhile, assaults against Border Patrol are rising and agents are left demoralized by the border crisis.
  • The crisis has gotten so dire that Border Patrol now employs a “suicideologist” to assist agents who are struggling.

BIDEN AND SENATE DEMOCRATS LIKE RAPHAEL WARNOCK ARE TO BLAME FOR THE BORDER CRISIS

• Biden’s failed policies have created the crisis at the southern border.
  • In Biden’s first 100 days he took more than 94 executive actions on immigration, including halting construction of the border wall and ending the successful “Remain in Mexico” policy.
  • Illegal immigrants have confirmed this: “The border is open…everybody believes that the border is open. It’s open because we enter. We come in, free, no problem…We came illegally.”
• It’s not just Biden; Senate Democrats like Raphael Warnock (D-GA) have consistently voted for policies that make the border and our country less secure.
  • Warnock voted to support sanctuary cities and send stimulus checks to illegal immigrants, opposed legislation to fund Title 42, and repeatedly voted against funding the border wall.
  • Warnock voted against hiring more border agents, deporting felons, preventing illegal immigrants convicted of crimes from becoming permanent residents — and voted twice against strengthening the successful Remain in Mexico policy.
  • Warnock voted against funding for counternarcotic operations and ensuring the enforcement of immigration laws at the border.
  • Warnock voted against ensuring all local and state law enforcement are permitted to cooperate with federal immigration officials to track illegal immigrants.
• A recent Politico/Morning Consult poll found 71 percent of Americans are concerned about illegal immigration at our southern border and 49 percent say America’s immigration system is worse under Biden.