What seemed to be true, actually was. The CBP has confirmed that Fiscal Year 2023 marked the “highest level of illegal immigration in U.S. history,” as reported by FAIR.
Over the past twelve months, CBP has encountered a stunning 3.2 million illegal aliens at our borders—more than all four years of the Trump Administration combined. The FY 2023 total represents a 16 percent increase over FY 2022 (2.76 million) and a 63 percent increase over FY 2021 (1.96 million).
A little fewer than two-thirds of the illegals encountered (2.06 million) were single adults, but family units totalled 994,000, a growing percentage over previous years. Demographically, Venezuelans made up about 10 percent of the total (335,000), although the administration had promised their new program of pretending Venezuelans to be legal was supposed to mitigate that number. In September alone, 55,000 Venezuelans were encountered at the southern border. (September was a record month all around: 341,000 illegals of all nationalities were encountered, the highest monthly number ever.)
Also, the number of Chinese illegals shot up: a total of 52,000 Chinese were caught in FY 2023. And the year saw a record number of terrorists encountered: 172 migrants on the FBI’s Watchlist were apprehended.
As always, we are not told how many of these people were actually admitted, but anecdotal evidence suggests that a comparative few are ever being turned back.
Those figures are unsustainable and clear evidence that the Biden adminstration has no intention of halting or even slowing the invasion. Pro-migrant ideologues are fond of saying our immigration system is “broken,” but the only thing broken is the promise Joe Biden and the executive branch made to enforce our laws. And it is in 3.2 million pieces.
For more, see FAIR.