Trey Paul, FISM News
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New internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data shows a staggering one million immigrants have broken the law to get into the United States since Joe Biden took office and have been allowed to stay. Most of them will remain in the country for at least seven years while waiting on hearings.
A new report in the New York Times featured the statistical revelation and referred to it as a “humanitarian challenge and a political flash point.” According to that report, the roughly one million illegal immigrants admitted by the Biden administration “are from more than 150 countries around the globe.”
Soon after taking office, President Biden issued an executive order that ended Trump-era protective immigration policies like the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as the “remain in Mexico” program, which called for asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico until their cases were heard.
FISM News reported DHS’s decision to side with Biden last month, noting that the Trump administration issued MPP in an attempt “to end the exploitation of our generous immigration laws.”
According to a report in the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the numbers are much higher. They reported that close to 4.9 million illegal aliens have crossed our borders since Biden took office. That same report shows that 2,071 pounds of fentanyl and 12,989 pounds of methamphetamine were seized at the southern border in July, noting that more drugs are getting through because Border Patrol agents are busy processing illegal aliens.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, who is working to showcase the humanitarian crisis at the border that he says President Biden created, recently tweeted about it.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre should take a trip with me to the southern border – we’ll see hundreds of illegal aliens crossing the border.
She and Biden are lying to the American people about the border crisis and the corporate media is covering for them! pic.twitter.com/XjqpYG5aXf
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) September 7, 2022
During an interview with FOX news, Sen. Cruz further elaborated saying in part:
We saw Karine Jean-Pierre stand up and say, people are not crossing the border, they’re not walking across the border. Listen, we’re used to flacks spinning. This was a flat-out lie. It’s an objective lie. It is 100% false. I invited her, come down to the border and see it, and her response was, I don’t need to be lectured by Republican Senators. I’ll tell you what, I’m going to give a challenge, Karine Jean-Pierre, right now: Come to this border, spend 60 minutes, one hour with me and the Border Patrol Union. We will encounter dozens, if not hundreds of illegal immigrants coming across, and if we don’t — let’s bring the entire White House press corps, and one of two things will happen: If we don’t encounter anyone, I’ll stand up and say, I was wrong.
On social media, Sen. Cruz also highlighted the news that nine migrants drowned while attempting to cross the swollen Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas earlier this week, making it one of the deadliest days at the river in U.S. history.
Border Patrol agents and other federal border agents in Eagle Pass, Texas say they pulled 37 migrants from the raging waters. Officials told the Washington Examiner another 16 people were taken into custody on Tuesday.
“Part of the rescue mission also led to the discovery of nine deceased migrants, three found by the Government of Mexico and six by agents,” Customs and Border Protections (CBP) agents said in a statement.
Yesterday, Congressman Mark Green of Tennessee who traveled back to the southern border, shared a video of him walking around what’s known as a transfer site where illegal immigrants are picked up on buses and transported throughout the United States.
Walking around what’s known as a transfer site at the southern border. This is where illegal immigrants get picked up on buses and transported throughout the United States. pic.twitter.com/fHCreQIoI9
— Rep. Mark Green (@RepMarkGreen) September 6, 2022
The latest Gallup poll shows that 27% of Americans feel immigration should be increased, 31% prefer that it be kept at the current level and 38% want it decreased.