Illegal immigrant encounters at the U.S. southern border are expected to rise further thanks to President Joe Biden’s flawed border policies.
The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced earlier this week that the southern border had 199,976 migrant encounters in July, totaling 1.946 million migrant encounters this year.
Unbelievable.
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) August 17, 2022
While Texas secures the border, the federal government is enabling illegal immigration.
Biden’s open border policies caused this crisis.
The federal government must do its job & fix it. https://t.co/4yqR8uQMo8
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.
In late 2020, migrant encounters stood at merely 72,000 a month, which rose to 173,000 in March 2021. Since then, no month has recorded less than 150,000 migrant encounters.
The CBP previously stopped publicly posting updates after Biden took office, labeling the information as “law enforcement sensitive,” which frustrated lawmakers.
The U.S. has been seeing massive migrant numbers after the Biden administration announced that it would be lifting “Title 42,” 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.”
In response, several county judges have asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to dedicate more resources toward addressing illegal immigrant activity at the U.S.-Mexico border amid what they said was lackluster support from the federal government.
“We want America to know that this is real,” Kinney County Judge Tully Shahan told reporters in Bracketville. “The Biden administration won’t do a thing about it. They could stop this thing this hour. They could stop it now. They don’t have the guts.”
