NCGOP Talking Points: Biden’s Border Crisis Continues with Over 4.4 Million Illegal Crossings!
Biden's Border Crisis: Over 4.4 Million Illegal Crossings
- The facts are clear: Biden's border crisis rages on despite Kamala Harris' claim that the border is "secure".
- Democrats from North Carolina to California own these open border policies wreaking havoc across the country.
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Newly released Customs and Border Protection data shows 203,597 illegal immigrants were apprehended attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in August.
- That is a 329% increase from the average number of August apprehensions during the Trump administration.
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The total number of illegal border crossings during the Biden administration is now over 4.4 million.
- More than 2.1 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border this fiscal year alone, a new record.
- 11,365 unaccompanied children were apprehended.
- 104,679 illegal immigrants were apprehended from countries outside the Northern Triangle and Mexico, showing that Biden's crisis is global.
- 66 migrants on the terror watchlist have been apprehended trying to enter the U.S. between ports of entry since the fiscal year began in October.
- Border Patrol is now encountering as many as 8,000 illegal immigrants crossing the border each day, the highest number of daily encounters in DHS history.
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Illicit drugs are flowing into the country at an alarming rate.
- Drug overdoses reached an all-time high in 2021 due in part to Biden's open border.
- 2,204 pounds of deadly fentanyl and 4,969 pounds of cocaine were seized at the southern border in July alone, with much more likely getting through.
- More fentanyl has crossed the border in the last two months under Biden than in all of FY 2019 under President Trump's leadership.
- The poison doesn't stay at the border: the largest fentanyl bust in Forsyth County history occured just days ago and communities all over the North Carolina are suffering the consequences
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Nearly 750 illegal migrants have died this fiscal year attempting to cross the border, making this fiscal year the deadliest in the history of the southwest border with a month to go.
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Biden's disastrous policies created the crisis at the southern border.
- In Biden's first 100 days he took more than 94 executive actions on immigration, including halting construction of the border wall and ending the Trump administration's successful "Remain in Mexico" policy.
- Every Democrat on the ballot in North Carolina this fall is a rubber stamp for the disastrous policies that have created chaos at the border.
- That chaos reaches all the way to North Carolina: the two suspects in a recent high-profile murder of a Wake County Sheriffs Deputy are both illegal aliens.
- Americans are witnessing crisis at the border month after month thanks to Biden's reckless open border policies.
- North Carolina families long for the return of their loved ones in the National Guard who've been deployed to the southern border as a direct result of Biden's disastrous policies.
- In November, voters will hold Biden and Democrats like Cheri Beasley accountable for their policies by electing Republicans up and down the ballot who will fight to secure our border and keep our communities safe.
Courtesy of NCGOP