Republican lawmakers are sounding the alarm on the dangers of the Biden administration’s failed border policies, claiming that the southern border is the worst crisis in American history.
According to a Politico report, Senate Republicans said that President Joe Biden has “undermined America’s border security and the integrity of our immigration system at every turn,” threatening the safety of the country.
The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced last week that the southern border had 199,976 migrant encounters in July, totaling 1.946 million migrant encounters this year.
Based on the projected data, the total count of illegal immigrants encountered for this year has already crossed the two million mark, the highest it has ever been even though the fiscal year is yet to complete.
Yet, Biden continued to insist that the border is “closed.” However, a new poll conducted by left-wing media outlet NPR found that a whopping 54 percent of Americans believe the president has purposely created the crisis at the border and is doing nothing to stop it.
The U.S. has been seeing massive migrant numbers after the Biden administration announced that it would be lifting “Title 42” last May, a controversial border policy implemented by former President Donald Trump back in March 2020 that allowed the border agency to turn migrants away.
Some officials in nearby border cities have also said that the swarm of illegal immigrants has already resulted in property damage, stolen vehicles, gun violence, and other issues resulting from migrants crossing into their counties, many of which are desolate and have sparse populations.
“In my community, we have less than 1,000 residents. The thousand residents everyday live in fear of the invasion,” said Dale Lynn Carruthers, the county judge for Terrell County. “We are doing the best we can with limited manpower. Terrell County has the least to offer but we have a lot of border coverage.”
The NPR survey also found that most Americans are blaming the open border for a sudden surge in deaths related to fentanyl, reporting: “It’s true that fentanyl overdose deaths are up in recent years, and that much of the U.S. fentanyl supply is smuggled through the border.”
In a recent six-day period, the CBP intercepted four vehicles carrying fentanyl weighing between 100 and 250 pounds from July 13 to 18 at the southern border.
