“ Mark Morgan, who became acting commissioner of CBP in July 2019, recalls that at its peak, roughly 150,000 migrants were apprehended in a month, with more than 5,000 on some days. Then, by February 2020, prior to the pandemic, the flow had been reduced by about 75 percent,”
Covid became a thing in March…
Try giving your feelings a rest and deal with facts.
Here are some more facts for you to soak your feelings with Allen…
“ Over the weekend, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released new data showing that fiscal year 2023 now marks the highest level of illegal immigration in U.S. history. 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).
While 65 percent of the illegal aliens encountered in FY 2023 were single adults (2.06 million), family units are a growing portion of the total. This year, 31 percent of migrants encountered (994,000) were family units. In FY 2022, family units accounted for 22 percent of the total (614,000); in FY 2021, family units accounted for 25 percent (484,000).
The data also show that illegal immigration is climbing at a higher rate than before the end of Title 42. At 341,000, September 2023 saw the highest monthly number of encounters ever. That number grew 61 percent from June 2023, the first month after Title 42 ended.”
Aside from interfering with the efforts of my home state of Texas to slow the flow Biden and Mayorkas have done abso ■■■■■■■ lutely nothing.
They do not have legitimate claims to the LEGAL definition of asylum as The Biden Administration freely states:
Both countries agreed to continue working together to better control migration in the Western Hemisphere by addressing root causes, continuing to build legal pathways for migrants and disrupting human smuggling networks.
“The two countries reaffirmed their existing commitments on fostering an orderly, humane, and regular migration,” read the White House’s original statement.
“This includes reinforcing our partnership to address the root causes of migration, such as poverty, inequality, democratic decline, and violence, and for the two countries’ initiative for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.”
Not a single one of those fits the actual LEGAL reason to grant asylum. It’s also offensive that a US Administration is talking to Mexico about building legal pathways for migrants to come to the US.
“This is something that we are seeing throughout the hemisphere and throughout the world. We have an increase in authoritarian regimes. We have more extreme weather events that are driving people from their homes. We have poverty.”
“And America is proving to be prosperous with more than 8 million jobs that need to be filled.