The Biden Border Crisis Continues to Worsen Every Month. We Must Act Now

The #BidenBorderCrisis continues to worsen every month. We must act now.

Border Patrol agents have made more than a million arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border so far this year, already higher than any full-year total since at least 2005, according to new Customs and Border Protection figures released Friday.

The CBP data only includes the number of arrests and doesn’t account for people who made it across the border without being apprehended.

“We are in the hottest part of the summer, and we are seeing a high number of distress calls to CBP from migrants abandoned in treacherous terrain by smugglers with no regard for human life,” said Troy Miller, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Border crossings are usually at their lowest during the hot summer months when crossing can be treacherous and life threatening in the heat, we can expect the numbers to explode as temperatures begin to cool. 

The numbers speak for themselves. Encounters at the southern border in 2021: 

• Jan: 78,442 
• Feb: 101,095 
• March: 173,265 
• April: 178,850 
• May: 180,641 
• June: 188,829 

The #BidenBorderCrisis continues to worsen every month. We must act now to protect our nation & secure the border.

Apprehensions of unaccompanied children rose to 15,253 in June, an 8% increase over May. The number of migrant families taken into custody at the border jumped 25%, to 55,805, still “well below” the peak of 88,587 in May 2019, officials said.

Approximately 14% of families were expelled in June, down from 20% in May.

“By any measure, we have the worst crisis at our southern border than we’ve had in at least two decades,” Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, said Thursday at a confirmation hearing for Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, who Biden has nominated to direct Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which detains and deports immigrants after they enter the United States. “The numbers are overwhelming.”