For years, Townhall has covered the chaos and multi-faceted crises caused by President Joe Biden’s open borders policy. These reports are based on publicly available data released by the Biden administration, anecdotal evidence provided by border officials in states such as Texas and Arizona, and court filings from removal proceedings. But now novel, non-public data has been released that clearly shows from federal government records that the border is wide open and getting worse by the week – just as the Biden administration wants.
The nonpublic data, obtained by the House Judiciary Committee chaired by Jim Jordan of Ohio, was released Thursday in an interim staff report along with other border statistics obtained by lawmakers. As noted in the committee’s executive summary, it was already known that “in September 2023, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered a record 269,735 illegal aliens along the Southwest border, surpassing the previous record of 252,315 encounters in December 2022.” ” and CBP took just three months to tell Fox News that December 2023 had already broken the previous record with over 302,000 encounters of illegal immigrants at the border — all while Biden and his administration still refuse to call the situation a “crisis.” “.
“With such a large and seemingly endless influx of illegal aliens into the United States, Americans would be right to conclude that the border crisis is not a side effect but a goal of the Biden administration’s radical open borders immigration policies,” he added. the report – he emphasizes before citing data discovered by the committee that support this conclusion.
Biden’s catch-and-release policy, for example, shows only a modicum of interest in removing illegal immigrants once they are caught or extradited. After nearly 6,000,000 encounters with undocumented immigrants from Biden’s first day in office through the end of September 2023, there are “at least 3,095,577” who “have not had a confirmed departure from the United States as of September 30, 2023.”
Additionally, more than 615,000 undocumented immigrants are currently on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) “non-detained records.” This means that “over half a million criminal aliens are on the streets and at risk of re-offending in American communities.”
The report also noted that as of December 10, 2023, there were 1,323,264 undocumented immigrants in the U.S. who had already received “final removal orders.”
These numbers are not surprising given additional data showing that the Biden administration has not removed through immigration court proceedings “approximately 99.7 percent” of the more than 3.3 million undocumented immigrants released into the U.S. since Biden took office. According to data obtained by the Judiciary Committee, the Biden administration “removed only one illegal alien for every 26 illegal aliens it allowed to enter the United States.”
As for the sporadic instances in which the Biden administration pretends to enforce U.S. sovereignty at the border, it also fails and shows a lack of interest in securing the border.
One data point shows that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), headed by Secretary of State Alejandro Mayorkas, “investigated only 6.8 percent of illegal aliens encountered at the southwest border to even check their eligibility.” asylum.”
The same agency, as of August 31, 2023, also removed only “2 percent of undocumented immigrants who failed to appear for immigration court hearings after successfully establishing a fear of border persecution,” meaning that 98 percent of such undocumented immigrants “remained in the US at the end of August 2023.” – according to the data.
Given data showing that the huge majority of illegal immigrants – even those who are no longer criminals – can remain in the US without punishment, it is no wonder that the wave of illegal immigrants crossing the border continues to enhance. In recent weeks, President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas have continued to deny that the border is in “crisis.” Instead, the administration continues to sue states – mainly Texas – for actually trying to enforce international borders and stem the flow of illegal immigrants who want to respond to the invitation issued by the Biden administration’s open borders policy.
