President Joe Biden is now referring to illegal immigrants as “newcomers.”
In a White House memo to Congress in which the president urged passage of a border bill that has, so far, been unacceptable to many border hawks in the U.S. House of Representatives, the White House said the bill “includes $1.4 billion for cities and states who are providing critical services to newcomers, and would expedite work permits for people who are in the country and qualify.”
Biden scheduled a visit to the border the same day that former president Donald Trump was at the border, where Biden trumpeted his border security accomplishments on Thursday.
His accomplishments are many, according to House GOP Chairwoman Elise Stefanik:
Since Joe Biden took office, 8.7 million illegal crossings have occurred nationwide, with over 7.2 million known illegal crossings at the southern border.
The total number of illegal immigrants who came through the border with Mexico is greater than the population of 36 states, including; Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Under Biden’s border policies, there have also been 1.8 million known gotaways — those who evaded U.S. Border Patrol.
Since the start of Fiscal Year 2024 in October of 2023, there have been over one million illegal immigrant encounters.
In January of 2024, there were 176,205 illegal immigrants encountered at the Southern Border. January was also the 35th straight month where monthly illegal immigrant encounters have been higher than even the highest month seen under President Trump.
Under Biden, over 340 of these illegal immigrants whose names appear on the terrorist watchlist were stopped trying to penetrate the Southern Border, exceeding all the encounters for fiscal years 2017 through 2022 combined.
The White House claimed that the Southern Border was “secure” just days after the Venezuelan man charged with the murder of 22-year-old Laken Riley, had entered the United States illegally. But in 2022, Biden went on the record saying it was “not rational” to deport illegal immigrants from Venezuela.
Over 20,000 illegals from the People’s Republic of China have crossed the Southern Border since October.
“Communist Chinese nationals are exploiting Joe Biden’s failed Far Left open border policies at “record-breaking figures,” becoming “the fastest-growing demographic entering the country illegally,” according to the House Republicans. “The surge in Communist Chinese nationals encountered at our Southern Border has raised serious concerns that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is exploiting the Biden border crisis for nefarious reasons.”
In August of 2022, Biden ended former President Donald Trump’s successful “Remain in Mexico” program.
And on May 10, 2023, Biden announced he would allow for the release of some migrants into the U.S. with no way to track them.
Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has now admitted that 40% of catch-and-release migrants have disappeared into American communities, completely unaccounted for.
