The border catastrophe: Another of Biden’s intentional crises

While Americans’ attention is understandably focused on skyrocketing gas prices and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the crisis at our southern border has dropped out of the headlines. But it is also escalating.

And, like President Joe Biden’s disastrous energy decisions, this crisis, too, is concocted. Biden is doing nothing to enforce our immigration laws; those exploiting Biden’s nonexistent enforcement know it. Here are some numbers that should shock Americans as much as the prices at the pump do:

In each of the last three full months of former President Donald Trump’s administration (October, November and December 2020), the Border Patrol reported between 71,000 and 74,000 “border encounters” with migrants crossing illegally. For fiscal year 2020 (October 2019 through September 2020), there were 458,088 such encounters. Total.

In the first full month of Biden’s presidency (February 2021), the number of migrants illegally crossing into the United States from Mexico jumped to 101,099. In March, it jumped again to 173,277. By July, more than 213,000 immigrants illegally crossed the southern border of the United States. In fiscal year 2021 – which included eight months of Biden’s deliberate neglect of the border – 1,734,686 people crossed the U.S. border with Mexico. If we look at calendar year 2021, almost 2 million people (1,963,253) crossed the border, more than four times the number that crossed during the entire last year of Trump’s presidency. That’s more people than the population of Dallas, Philadelphia or Phoenix.

And those are just the ones we know of. (The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that another 500,000 illegal immigrants entered without detection in 2021.) This year is already on track to be worse. In January, 154,745 migrants entered illegally – over 76,000 more than last year. In February, 164,973 – over 63,000 more than last year. At this rate, by the end of Biden’s first term, somewhere between 4 million and 5 million people will have come into this country illegally, more than the population of Los Angeles, the second-biggest city in the United States.

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