Illegal immigration at the southern U.S. border, already on track in 2023 to break all previous annual records, has surged throughout the month of the December—and President Joe Biden appears unwilling, or unable, to do much about it.
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According to the U.S. Department of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), American border guards encountered 3.2 million illegal aliens attempting to cross into the U.S. from Oct. 2022 to Sept. 2023.
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That’s up from 2.8 million in 2022 and 1.9 million in 2021.
In October, the most recent month for which data is available, CBP encountered 309,221 illegal aliens attempting to slip into the country without authorization.
The majority of illegal immigrants in the past three years have arrived as single adults and have attempted to cross the southern border with Mexico.
The CBP numbers only include individuals “encountered” by U.S. border officials, which means the true number of illegal immigrants who have entered the U.S. without authorization is likely far higher.
Videos posted to X by reporters working the border beat show massive columns of illegal aliens marching over the border.
Once they encounter federal officials, they will be allowed to move freely into the interior of the country.
The migrant crush has grown so heavy that the federal government has shutdown some lines of international commerce, like the railway crossings, and brought FBI agents to the border in order to assist with processing migrants.
When pressed on the White House’s response to the border surge, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters she “take[s] offense” at the notion Biden is not taking the problem seriously.
Congress has hemmed and hawed over a potential deal that would see additional funding for Ukraine’s war against Russia linked with a border security bill, but that potential compromise has yet to come to fruition.
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If they completely shut down the border today, it wouldn’t matter. The damage has already been done by the corrupt, America Last traitors in this administration and the UniParty. The only solution is MAGA 2024 by electing Trump and deporting every illegal alien. I can only imagine that price tag which is doing what hard-Left Democrats do best, create a problem that didn’t previously exist and then we’ll need to spend taxpayer money to correct it. A**-wipes!
This is no longer a country where land is given away to anyone who can claim it. We are now a Welfare/Warfare State.The beleagered taxpayers in such a federation cannot support everyone who wants to live here. This is Clowerd and Piven tactics to overload the system and collapse it so that the Marxists can take over. Our feckless president is a pawn, doing what he’s told to bring this about. If we don’t stop this invasion we will soon be living in a very different country from what we value. Our forefather’s principled gift to us is being undermined and betrayed. Voting doesn’t seem to improve matters…Wake up!
If we stopped letting immigrants in, if we stopped INVITING immigrants in (thank you, Joe Biden), if we stopped paying for every last necessity and nicety for immigrants while denying Americans in need – they would not continue to storm our border. People do not go where they are not invited, accepted, and coddled.
We all know that, the Biden administration all know that. But since this is part of their overall plan to destroy America, it will continue and will be escalated until Biden and his cronies and his puppet-masters are put into prison (hopefully in Guantanamo).
I used to think we could last until Brandan is out of office next year. Now I don’t know if we can.
Never I repeat NEVER vote for a G.D. Democrat.
Dysfunctional Democrats at their best.
They must be stopped!
More Q’s: Who stood there & videorecorded this jaw-dropping video? Why didn’t they call Homeland Security & tell them to do something? Why have we got Homeland Security in the first place? How much are we paying Homeland Security, ICE, & everyone else who gets cushy jobs out of this while apparently looking the other way?