The Biden administration is facing a "serious challenge" at the US southern border, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Thursday, saying the US has encountered an "unprecedented" number of migrants illegally crossing the border.
During a news conference in Brownsville, Texas, Mayorkas stressed the sharp increase of migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border, many of whom are fleeing deteriorating conditions in their home countries.
In July, US Customs and Border Protection apprehended 212,672 people, up from June and amid some of the hottest summer weeks -- when arrests usually dip -- and of those, 95,788 individuals were expelled. Twenty-seven percent had previously tried to cross the border, Mayorkas said, acknowledging that a Trump-era policy that allows border authorities to turn migrants away has contributed to people trying to cross the border multiple times. July marks the highest monthly number of migrants detained at the US-Mexico border in two decades.
Customs and Border Protection also arrested 18,962 unaccompanied children in July, surpassing the number of apprehensions of minors in March, when overcrowded border facilities raised alarm among officials. While the administration has made inroads in moving children out of Customs and Border Protection custody, thousands remain in temporary facilities waiting to be reunited with sponsors, like a parent or relative, in the US.
Thanks Y’all … that’s 400,000 in 2 months when the crossings historically dip .. and the first intellectually dishonest reporter said June was up 10% from March so that means just shy of 170,000 WERE APPREHENDED … that makes just shy of 600k in 3 months …. At this pace were looking at over 2 million illegal crossings that GOT APPREHENDED …
And I’m sure most of them were vaccinated and COVID free coming from those well vaccinated countries throughout the world …
Now for the criminal/drug portion of the Thank You …
US border authorities have posted online a terrifying gallery of illegal immigrants they recently busted crossing in from Mexico — including suspected pedophiles, rapists and murderers.
The parade of at least 10 hardened criminals comes amid a southern border crisis that has been blamed on the Biden administration’s eased policies.
“In the past four days, #USBP agents arrested a murderer, an MS-13 gang member, and two sexual predators illegally present in the country. #RGV agents continue safeguarding our communities from violent criminals like these,” tweeted Deputy Chief Patrol Agent Joel Martinez of the US Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley sector Friday.
EL PASO, Texas — Federal agents in this section of the southern border say they’ve seen a staggering 4,000 percent increase in fentanyl seizures over the last three years.
Those busts are not at ports of entry, where most smuggled drugs are typically found. The Border Patrol says the rising amount of fentanyl is being found in the desert – transported by increasingly brazen smugglers who are exploiting stretched federal resources.
In 2018, the Border Patrol in the El Paso sector found just one pound of fentanyl outside ports of entry. In 2019, two pounds. In 2020, nine.
During the 2021 fiscal year, agents have found 41 pounds so far WOW … FRICKING WOW!! – a dramatic rise that experts attribute to the increasing role in drug cartels producing the illicit drug themselves with raw materials from China. The sharp rise from 2018 to 2020 suggests the coronavirus pandemic did not artificially inflate the 2021 numbers.
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, two milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal, depending on a person’s body size. One kilogram of fentanyl has the potential to kill 500,000 people. A kilogram is roughly 2.2 pounds.
Cool that means we’re replacing the number of Americans who died due to a complete lack of leadership from covid during the trump administration.
Keep em coming.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
So if you're capturing them and sending them back, what do you think closed means? Are you trying to say that if you close the border they just stop coming? I guess according to you if someone closes their store and somebody breaks in anyway, their store wasn't really closed. Brilliant.
And I guess if you want to know how many are getting through you should research that. Are you saying they didn't get through when Trump was president?
Dear God man.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
I guess you must have missed the part about them being arrested. Moving on.....
Nope. I caught that part. Next question is: How many WEREN'T caught and arrested.
I thought many on here, and the biden admin. said the border was closed.
Are you saying trumps wall isnt working?
He really didn't build that long of a wall... However, check it out and you'll find that while part of the wall was rebuilt on Trumps watch, most all of it was scheduled and paid for under Obama...
#GMSTRONG
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"Alternative facts hurt us all. Think before you blindly believe." Damanshot
And they still can't seem to grasp the difference between a fence and a wall. Do you remember all of those contractors who actually built thirty feet wide sample walls that were built in San Diego to try to land the contract to build it? They actually took Trump seriously when Trump said he was going to build a wall.
Silly rabbit. Tricks are for kids.
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Yet there have been many positive measures to slow down the death rate and take precautions to prevent the spread. At least for anyone and everyone willing to listen. You can't blame the ignorance of people on who is sending the message. Oh wait, never mind, you just did.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
I know it would actually take things like research and reading. You know those hard things you don't like to do. But rather than keep asking everyone to do your homework, why don't you seek the answer you're looking for yourself? That obviously doesn't seem to be your strong suit.
But since that seems to be your obvious approach, how many people weren't caught while trump was president? See how that works?
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
Do you like anything that's even close to a fact? Do you know how much actual, new border "wall", as you keep calling a fence, was built during trump's presidency? 47 miles. There was 700 miles of new wall proposed in total. That's 11.75 miles per year. That means at the rate Trump built the fence/wall it would have taken him over 59 and a half years to complete.
So are you talking about the hundreds of thousands being caught or some number you have no idea of that aren't being caught? Because you keep asking everyone else for that number. You do realize that if you're caught breaking into a country you entered illegally you actually did get caught, right?
That's the very definition of something being closed.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
That's the same question you could have asked for decades now no matter who was president. But you aren't asking that. If someone breaks into your house, the door was locked.
The same border security is in place now as there was when trump was president. They are arresting those crossing the border illegally just as they were then.
So according to your logic, the door has never been locked.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
Not only did he leave most of Trump's policies in place, he's now also reinstating those he ended to placate and pacify Trumpians. Joe is trying to be everybody's POTUS... Something Trump never even attempted.
Biden Administration Ordered to Reinstate Trump’s Remain in Mexico Policy
SO, it looks like the border problem belongs to both sides now. Truth of the matter is that it always has been on both and shouldn't be a partisan issue. BUT you poor misguided souls think Trump had it figured out, when really few immigrants wanted to relocate to Trump's New Gilead USA. I personally don't think a white supremacist authoritarian state is appealing to true Americans, let alone POC immigrants.
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Your feelings and opinions do not add up to facts.
I see you have nothing to comment on but personal attacks. Nothing to dispute that according to you, no president has ever "closed the border". Because according to you once they manage to cross that border it means the border isn't closed.
It's your typical game plan. Once you are proven wrong and lose, all you have left is a personal attack. No evidence, no counterpoint, no substance. The arch we've all come to know and love.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
What question? a hypothetical question there is no answer to? One you refuse to even try to show proof of yourself? Do your own homework. It's not my job to do your imaginary quiz for you.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.