Slow-motion invasion update: Biden & Mayorkas Make Border Crisis History
Report says Biden admin is "worst on record"
A report on Sept. 2023 border data by Rep. Mark Green (TN-07), chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, says the Biden administration is the “worst on record” when it comes to U.S. border security.
The report includes a number of hyperlinks to documents, reports, testimony, letters, and news articles.
“Since President Biden took office, there have been 7.5 million encounters nationwide and 6.2 million encounters at the Southwest border, in addition to 1.7 million known gotaways who evaded U.S. Border Patrol,” the report states.
Other topline items included:
• Encounters at the Southwest border (SWB) in FY2023 increased over 40% since FY2021, 4% compared to FY2022, and more than 100% compared to FY2019, making last fiscal year the worst on record under the Biden administration.
• Last month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported a 40% increase compared to September 2021 and 18% compared to September 2022. This monthly number also represents an 86% increase from June 2023, when the Biden administration celebrated a short-lived drop in illegal crossings following the end of Title 42
• Of these encounters, 218,763 individuals were apprehended attempting to cross illegally between ports of entry. This is a 20% increase since the previous month.
• Encounters by the Office of Field Operations (OFO) in September increased 155% compared to September 2022.
Terror watchlist border crossings were also included, citing 169 individuals on that list having been stopped trying to cross the southern border during fiscal year 2023 and 18 of them were apprehended just in September.
“FY2023 represents a 72% increase from FY2022 for apprehensions of individuals on the terrorist watchlist, and is the most on record,” says the report.
But it's not just the southern border the report covers. Our northern border with Canada has some startling statistics as well.
“Encounters at the Northern border in September 2023 increased 409% compared to September 2021 and 41% compared to September 2022,” per the report. “In FY2023, encounters along the busiest sector of the Northern border, the Swanton Sector, increased 1,797% compared to FY2021 and 550% FY2022.”
Illegal alien crime statistics in the report cite CPB arresting “35,433 aliens with criminal convictions or outstanding warrants nationwide, including 598 known gang members, 178 of those being MS-13 members,” so far in FY 2023.
One alarming example given was a Sept. 6 encounter by Border Patrol agents near Fronton, Texas where they discovered “backpacks with ammo and a homemade explosive in the same area where cartel gunman have been repeatedly seen on cameras crossing illegally into the U.S.”
The report goes on to describe how overwhelmed CPB facilities are, resulting in “mass street releases” on Sept. 13 and 15 along with 13,000 aliens released in San Diego “over the last month alone.”
Similarly, Cochise County in Arizona announced CPB facilities were overcapacity and forced to start letting aliens out into the community and Eagle Pass declared a state of emergency on Sept. 19 as upwards of 4,000 illegal aliens flooded into the city over a four-day period.
Drug seizures are also breaking records, according to the data in the report.
For the current fiscal year, “CBP, including Air and Marine Operations, seized 27,293 pounds of fentanyl, coming across the Southwest border—enough to kill around 6 billion people,” the report says, adding that the “Total CBP fentanyl seizures in FY2023 increased 88% compared to FY2022,” but officials estimate they are only able to seize 5-10% of what is coming over the U.S.-Mexico border.
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North Carolina is not immune to the impact of illegal immigration. Far from it, the state’s highways are pass-throughs for trafficking and hundreds of illegal alien children have and are being settled in Greensboro and other areas.
When it comes to the crimes committed by illegal aliens in North Carolina, over the years, the website NC FIRE has tracked hundreds of illegal aliens charged with child rape in the state.
Flashing back to before the pandemic, in 2019, North Carolina U.S. Senator Thom Tillis blasted the release of more than 500 illegal aliens in NC by certain sheriff's offices refusing to honor U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers.
A year after Tillis' press release, not much had changed.
In September 2020, ICE issued a press statement in which the agency had executed "targeted arrests of criminal aliens in Mecklenburg County," while noting that many of those arrests were "shielded by North Carolina non-cooperation policies."
Without actually naming the Mecklenburg Sheriff Garry McFadden, ICE's release stated they had arrested 12 illegal aliens in the Charlotte area and that six of them had detainers on them that were ignored and those individuals were "released back into the community where they were free to reoffend until their capture."
These individuals weren't charged with simple crimes either; one included assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to do bodily harm.
McFadden gained national attention in early 2020 when he ignored an ICE detainer on Luis Pineda-Anchecta, a multiple reentry offender with a long Charlotte-area rap sheet, and allowed him to post bond. Within six days of his release, Pineda-Anchecta kidnapped his girlfriend and attempted to murder her.
Wake County's former Sheriff Gerald Baker was no better, ignoring detainer requests and releasing nearly 200 illegal aliens into the streets of Raleigh in 2020. Baker, a Democrat, was later ousted from his job in a run-off election against fellow Democrat Willie Rowe in 2022.
Also in September 2020, ICE announced that 19 illegal aliens had been charged with voter fraud in North Carolina related to the 2016 election. Seven of those individuals were indicted by a federal grand jury for "falsely claiming U.S. citizenship or making false statements on voter registration application, and with misdemeanor charges of unlawfully casting ballots in the 2016 presidential election."
There are many more ICE news releases pertaining to North Carolina worth taking the time to have a look at, such as a baby formula theft ring, child sexual assaults, and child pornography, as well as human and drug trafficking rings.
Jump forward to 2021, when a man from Mexico was sentenced to 44 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm by an illegal alien. It was revealed Silvano Dominguez-Torres had been deported at least FIVE times in the past.
Dominguez-Torres was arrested in 2019 in Wake County and was apparently released as his gun charges stemmed from a 2020 traffic stop by the NC Highway Patrol.
More details on Dominguez-Torres’ arrest in the press release by the U.S. District Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina:
"Dominguez-Torres was suspected of driving while impaired. Dominguez-Torres attempted to flee the trooper on foot and resisted arrest for over 10 minutes. In addition, Dominguez-Torres bit the trooper on his hand to avoid being handcuffed. Dominguez-Torres was subsequently taken into custody.
The trooper had to seek a medical evaluation.
A search of Dominguez-Torres’s vehicle revealed a .380 caliber handgun located on the passenger side floor. The firearm was reported stolen.
Fingerprints submitted to DHS and FBI databases confirmed Dominguez-Torres’s identity as a previously deported alien. Dominguez-Torres was charged with illegal reentry of a deported alien via criminal complaint on July 30, 2020, and on September 2, 2020, he was indicted for illegal reentry and unlawful and illegal alien in possession of a firearm. He pled guilty on November 16, 2020."
Aside from crime, there is a huge cost of illegal immigration for U.S. taxpayers.
"At the start of 2023, the net cost of illegal immigration for the United States – at the federal, state, and local levels – was at least $150.7 billion," the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) states in its 2023 report on the cost of illegal immigration.
Compared to 2017, FAIR estimated the cost to Americans has increased by nearly $35 billion.
The costs are further broken down in the report, showing federal spending of $6.6 billion in education, $23.1 in Medicaid, $25.1 for federal justice enforcement, and $11.6 billion in welfare programs.
Other findings in FAIR's report include:
Illegal immigration costs each American taxpayer $1,156 per year ($957 after factoring in taxes paid by illegal aliens).
Each illegal alien or U.S.-born child of illegal aliens costs the U.S. $8,776 annually.
Evidence shows that tax payments by illegal aliens cover only around a sixth of the costs they create at all levels in this country.
A large percentage of illegal aliens who work in the underground economy frequently avoid paying any income tax at all.
Many illegal aliens actually receive a net cash profit through refundable tax credit programs.
FAIR also debunks the oft-cited line that illegal aliens contribute through taxes they pay for working in the U.S.
The truth is the estimated tax they contribute is dwarfed by the federal spending on illegal aliens.
FAIR estimates $24.6 billion in tax receipts from illegal aliens versus $50.2 billion in net federal impact of illegal aliens.
Drilling down to the state level, FAIR says $15.2 billion in state taxes are collected from illegal aliens yet the net state impact is $100.4 billion - a 560% increase.
Mass illegal immigration is also on the verge of crippling public schools both in terms of cost and in terms of qualified teachers who can handle children who are not English speakers.
Last September, FAIR's report, "The Elephant in the Classroom: Mass Immigration Imposing Colossal Cost and Challenges on Public Education," tackled this issue.
"Nationwide, LEP students cost taxpayers just over $78 billion annually. Virtually the entirety of this cost, 99 percent, is borne by taxpayers at the local and state levels. The cost of educating LEP students has swelled by $18.8 billion since 2016. This massive increase is primarily due to an increase in the total number of LEP students, as well as large increases in associated education costs."
The report continues, naming North Carolina as one of the states being drained by LEP services.
"This fiscal impact is felt well beyond states that share a border with Mexico. In fact, 14 of the 17 states spending more than $1 billion on LEP programs in 2020 don’t border Mexico: Colorado, Illinois, Washington, Virginia, Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Florida, New Jersey, North Carolina, Washington, New York and Maryland."
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