On October 10, the majority Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee released a report titled “The Biden Border Crisis: New Data and Testimony Show How the Biden Administration Opened the Southwest Border and Abandoned Interior Enforcement.” It reveals how the administration has broken our immigration system to the extent that “there is virtually no enforcement of our immigration laws.”
Border By the Numbers. Since February 2021 — Biden’s first full month in office — CBP has encountered more than six million aliens at the Southwest border, 5.4 million of whom were illegal entrants apprehended by Border Patrol agents after entering illegally, and nearly 618,000 other aliens who were deemed inadmissible by CBP officers from the Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Southwest border ports of entry.
Border Patrol set new annual records for migrant apprehensions in FY 2021 (nearly 1.66 million) and again in FY 2022 (2.2 million-plus), while the almost 379,000 aliens deemed inadmissible at the Southwest border ports in the first 11 months of FY 2023 (nearly 379,000) exceeds total Southwest border port encounters in FY 2017, FY 2018, and FY 2019 — combined (fewer than 362,000) — by more than 17,000.
Some 2.515 million of those 6 million-plus CBP encounters resulted in expulsions under CDC orders issued pursuant to Title 42 of the U.S. Code in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, but of course Title 42 ended on May 11, and no expulsions have occurred under those orders since.
Conversely, 3.57 million other aliens encountered at the Southwest border since February 2021 have been “processed for removal” under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
The report goes on as follows:
- “Processed for Removal”. There’s a big difference between an alien being processed for removal under the INA and the alien actually being removed from the United States.
- More than 2.6 Million Releases and Counting.
- And 1.7 Million-Plus “Got-Aways” Gets You to 4.3 Million New Arrivals.
- Add 205,473 More Thanks to Biden’s “Illegal Categorical Parole Programs”.
For more, see CIS.org.