This week, the Customs and Border Protection apprehension numbers for the month of May were released sending shock waves across border states. The data showed more than 180,000 illegal aliens were apprehended crossing the border over the course of the month, a 674% increase from the 23,237 illegal aliens apprehended at the border in May 2020.
May’s numbers makes it the fourth month in a row of more than 100,000 apprehensions by CBP, and three consecutive months above 170,000—the highest totals in two decades.
On Thursday, Governors Doug Ducey and Greg Abbott sent an “urgent” letter to all U.S. governors asking them to send available law enforcement resources to the U.S.-Mexico border. The duo’s letter is in response to the increase in illegal border crossings, apprehensions and unaccompanied migrant children in federal custody.
Also on Thursday, FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted the obvious when told lawmakers, during a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, that “there’s no question” cartel activity from Mexico is spilling across the southern border.”
“These historic numbers will continue as long as the Biden administration refuses to apply any kind of consequence to individuals crossing the border illegally,” said Chad Wolf, former acting DHS secretary. “The vice president needs to stop talking about ‘root causes’ and focus on the crisis in front of her and this administration. We know the root causes of illegal immigration: people from around the world want to come here for economic opportunity, plain and simple. The administration has come up with various other reasons to explain this surge, but at the end of the day, they are coming because of the pull of the Biden administration’s open-borders policies. This administration has rolled out the welcome mat, undone successful policies that had secured our border, and tied the hands of law enforcement responsible for removing the overwhelming majority who do not qualify for asylum and have no legal right to be here. Expect these shocking numbers for the foreseeable future.”
“While Vice President Kamala Harris continues to laugh off questions about why she hasn’t visited the border, the men and women of the Border Patrol are being crushed under this historic border crisis,” said Mark Morgan, former acting CBP commissioner. “The Biden administration is directly responsible for this crisis, and is only digger a deeper hole for country by doubling down on its failed policies and its pursuit of open borders. The American people have to be wondering: How long will it be before we see fewer than 170,000 illegal aliens apprehended crossing our border every month? How long before it’s fewer than 100,000? Biden’s border crisis is normalizing law-breaking at our southern border in a way never before seen. Previous administrations faced crises and dealt with them — this administration knowingly created a crisis, and is refusing to fix it, or even acknowledge it, because of the political benefit it perceives in allowing it to continue. Biden’s border crisis is a national embarrassment.”
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