Record Number of Illegal Aliens Entered the U.S. in September

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported a record number of 269,735 illegal aliens entering along the southwest border in September, highlighting the Biden administration’s failure to secure the nation’s borders and keep Americans safe.  

Troy A. Miller, senior official performing the duties of the commissioner of the CBP, acknowledged the “high rates of encounters across the southwest border” in a press release on Saturday, stating that the CBP is responding by increasing resources and personnel along the border.  

Miller declared, “We are continually engaging with domestic and foreign partners to address historic hemispheric migration, including large migrant groups traveling on freight trains, and to enforce consequences including by preparing for direct repatriations to Venezuela. CBP will continue to remain vigilant, making operational adjustments as necessary and enforcing consequences under U.S. immigration law….” 

Adding to the historic number of illegals crossing into the country is the growing concern of possible terrorists sneaking across the border. Daily Caller obtained a CBP internal memo warning that members of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and Hezbollah could be crossing through the southern border.  

The new site posted: 

“San Diego Field Office Intelligence Unit assesses that individuals inspired by, or reacting to the current Israel-Hamas conflict may attempt travel to or from the area of hostilities in the Middle East via circuitous transit across the Southwest border,” the memo reads. 

“Foreign fighters motivated by ideology or mercenary soldiers of fortune may attempt to obfuscate travel to or from the US to or from countries in the Middle East through Mexico….” 

The CBP memo heightens the need to secure the border and further exposes President Biden’s failed border policies. That has led to the state of Texas dealing with the growing number of illegal alien crossings by utilizing Operation Lone Star, busing of thousands of illegals to sanctuary cities, and becoming the only state in U.S. history to build their own border wall.  

The record number of illegals entering the country clearly shows that President Biden has no interest in controlling the southwest border and is ignoring his sworn, constitutional duty to protect our states from invasion.   

A recent ABC News/Washington Post survey revealed that 70 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Biden is handling “immigration and the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border.” That number is up from mid-July, when 61 percent of Americans disapproved. The majority of Americans being unhappy can’t bode well for a president who is seeking reelection. 

However, Republicans and Democrats view immigration and the border crisis quite differently. According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, “Republicans place particular importance on border security and deportations of immigrants who are in the country illegally, while Democrats place greater importance on paths to legal status for those who entered the country illegally — especially those who entered as children.” 

Pew added that with the record number of illegals being apprehended along the border, “about three-quarters of Americans (73%) say increasing security along the U.S.-Mexico border to reduce illegal crossings should be a very (44%) or somewhat (29%) important goal of U.S. immigration policy. Nearly all Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (91%) say border security should be an important goal, while a smaller majority of Democrats and Democratic leaners (59%) say the same, according to the survey of 7,647 U.S. adults conducted Aug. 1 to 14.” 

The CBP report, the recent polls, and Americans’ overall concern over the border crisis should be sending a clear message to the Biden administration that their open border policies must end. As a recent House Judiciary report on the border crisis stated, “Congress must secure the southwest border and eliminate the incentives for illegal immigration, or this crisis will continue to intensify.”  

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