The new fact sheet by Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee has been released, showing nationwide encounters totaled nearly 159,000 in August, including more than 107,000 at the Southwest border, an increase of more than 3% from July’s Southwest border numbers.
The rise under the Biden-Harris administration is staggering compared to the Trump administration. The number under the Biden-Harris administration now totals more than 10.3 million, compared to 3.1 million from Fiscal Years (FY) 2017-2020 combined, the Republicans stated. And that number for the Biden-Harris administration does not include the estimated two million known gotaways recorded since the start of Fiscal Year 2021.
“Monthly encounters at ports of entry alone have not totaled fewer than 90,000 since February 2023,” the Republicans wrote. “Since January 2023, more than 1.3 million inadmissible aliens have been granted entry through the illegal CBP One and Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) mass-parole programs President Biden and his ‘border czar’ Vice President Harris have created.”
“Since the program began, roughly 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans have been mass paroled under the administration’s CHNV parole program at ports of entry,” the Committee continued. “388 illegal aliens on the terrorist watchlist have been apprehended between ports of entry at the Southwest and northern borders since FY21.”
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In late July, Vice President Kamala Harris tried to present herself as tough on immigration, apparently in an attempt to deflect from the harsh criticism of her as President Biden’s reputed “border czar” while illegal immigration had soared to unprecedented levels.
“In this campaign, I will proudly put my record against his any day of the week, including for example on the issue of immigration,” she boasted, then bragged about her record as attorney general of California, “I walked underground tunnels between the United States and Mexico on that border with law enforcement officers. I went after international gangs, drug cartels, and human traffickers that came into our country illegally. I prosecuted them in case after case and I won.”
As America First Legal, which launched inquiries into Harris’ history in California’s government between 1990 and 2017, noted: “As California Attorney General, Kamala Harris interfered with the enforcement of federal immigration laws—even defending San Francisco’s sanctuary-city ordinance and opposing California’s participation in the federal Secure Communities program (a program that enabled ICE to deport criminal aliens from local communities).”
