Despite President Biden's claim that the border surge is seasonal, illegal border crossings are surging. Over 188,000 encounters at the southern border during the month of June alone. This is the fourth consecutive month of encounters over 170,000 – that’s the highest number in two decades. Border apprehensions have increased every single month that Biden has been President. Over 6,000 migrants are caught crossing our border illegally each day.
In April 2020, border agents encountered just 16,182 illegal crossers.
But in May 2021, border agents encountered 180,034 illegal crossers, the highest one-month total in 21 years. This includes 14,158 unaccompanied children.
That’s more than a 200% increase from the average number of May apprehensions during the Trump administration and a 674% increase over May 2020. Worse yet, 711,784 migrants have been caught attempting to illegally cross the border in Biden’s first five months in office and 88,998 migrants who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border have been released into the United States. This is a stark contrast to the just 18 people who were let go during President Trump’s final full month in office.
We are also seeing huge surges we are seeing in crime!
Human traffickers and drug smugglers are taking advantage of the Biden-Harris open border policies. More deadly fentanyl has been seized so far in 2021 than throughout all of 2020. Intelligence officials have warned individuals with ties to terrorist groups are taking advantage of the “porous border.”
This uptick is a direct result of President Biden's stance on illegal immigration.
Biden has reversed many of the commonsense Trump Administration border security policies that kept our country safe. He stopped construction of the border wall—after having proudly touted his previous votes for border fences in earlier political campaigns.
Instead of working with Republicans and Democrats in Congress, he has proposed a radical immigration agenda that will only move us closer to open borders, and it is showing results—just not the results America needs.
Why won't House Democrats even acknowledge there is a crisis? Anyone with eyes can see this is a serious crisis.
So, what have the Democrats focused on instead?
Amnesty as infrastructure! Senate Democrats have said that a bipartisan infrastructure deal is a condition for passing a reconciliation bill that includes mass amnesty.
Chuck Schumer said, “We have to have total agreement on both before we move either.” Joe Manchin said, “[i]f a bipartisan infrastructure bill falls apart, everything could fall apart.”
House Democrats, on the other hand, say that reconciliation must happen before they will move a bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA) said: “We will not take up
the infrastructure bill until the Senate passes the reconciliation measure.”
With amnesty and infrastructure inextricably linked, the Senate should not proceed with the infrastructure bill. By passing a bipartisan infrastructure bill, the prospects of the successful passage of the reconciliation bill, which only requires a simple majority vote, increase drastically. Agreeing to this wasteful bill removes leverage for reconciliation negotiations and deducts more than a trillion dollars in costs from the reconciliation bill, thereby making it easier to pass
It also includes measures that encourage asylum fraud, increases all types of legal immigration, and erase the line between illegal and legal immigration.
The act is primarily an electoral strategy for leftists who believe that it will result in more favorable voter demographics to quickly flip red states to blue states.
Even absent the planned radical transformations, the “infrastructure” bill is bad policy that is not focused on actual infrastructure. Yet, before the text of the bill has even been released, 17 Republican Senators have already agreed to advance the $1.2 trillion bill. Disclosed parameters of the legislation demonstrate that it is an infrastructure-in-name-only package packed with Amtrak earmarks, leftist climate-change funding, and subsidies for electric vehicles.
The White House has also called on Congress to include the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, the most radical immigration bill ever introduced, in a reconciliation package.
The act would grant amnesty to virtually every illegal alien in the country, estimates of which range from 11 million to 22 million.
Wasteful spending of this magnitude will only make recent inflation spikes worse.
Congress should pump the brakes on the wasteful infrastructure package that will set the stage for amnesty and put an end to the historic Biden border crisis.
To make matters worse, just as we are making headway in the fight against COVID-19, illegal immigrants are leaving the border for other parts of the country, often without ID or COVID tests.
Amid talks of renewed shutdowns, and vaccine mandates, our own government is failing us by refusing to test adult migrants for the coronavirus in jam-packed border processing centers.
Reported just yesterday, the city of McAllen says the federal government has released over 7,000 COVID positive migrants into the city since February including over 1,500 new infected migrants in just the LAST WEEK ALONE! Now, the city of McAllen has declared a local state of disaster!
A Houston hospital has its first case of the Lambda variant of the coronavirus and the city of Laredo, Texas confirmed its first positive Delta variant case this week.
Laredo is now suing the U.S. government to stop the Biden administration from sending unvaccinated illegal immigrants to the border community.
We have hundreds of thousands coming over and the Biden Administration has no plan to test or quarantine them. There is no doubt the Biden Administration's migrant policies are leaving citizens at risk of getting COVID.
Apparently, the goal is to simply register-and-release within 72 hours.
The Biden Administration has no plan to fix the crisis at the border that Biden himself helped to create. For crying out loud, migrants are directly citing the President’s policies for why they are crossing the border now.
No one can say for certain how big a role these high levels of illegal immigration have played in the spread of the virus, but the Biden administration can’t have it both ways. If President Biden wants the public to defer to public-health officials when it comes to masking and social distancing, he can’t expect people to ignore these same officials when they tell us that large numbers of recent migrants may be contributing to the crisis.
The situation is unlikely to change until the administration makes it clear that people who come illegally are unwelcome. Sure, Mr. Biden mouths the words, but his policies are telling people that if they make it here, they’ll probably get to stay.
When the president plays down the need for better border security, tells asylum seekers they no longer have to remain outside the U.S. while a court adjudicates their claims, and urges Congress to pass an amnesty bill for millions of people already in the country illegally, he shouldn’t be surprised that would-be immigrants aren’t taking him seriously when he says don’t come.
Friends, here is the bottom line. As Democrats scold Americans for their masking and vaccination habits, they are allowing thousands of untested, and often unvaccinated, illegal migrants pour across the southern border – it’s a stark display of hypocrisy.
Congress should be doing everything in its power to stop this historic Biden border crisis, not making it worse by offering a reward for illegal border crossing.
The nation is in the midst of the purposefully created and worsening Biden border crisis.
