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A Surge At The Border
Biden's border crisis continues to rage, and with the ending of Title 42, things are only going to get worse at the border.
What you need to know:
New Customs and Border Protection data released this week shows 211,401 illegal immigrants were apprehended attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in April.
This is the second highest total for April in 22 years.
This is the first time in history that monthly apprehensions at the southern border have surpassed 150,000 for 26 consecutive months.
With roughly 7,000 daily encounters, this dwarfs the definition of a "crisis" set by Obama's DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson when he said in 2019 that "more than 1,000" apprehensions a day "overwhelms the system."
April's 211,000-plus encounters is a 337% increase from the average number of April apprehensions from 2017-2020.
11,478 unaccompanied children were apprehended.
113,319 illegal immigrants were apprehended from countries outside the Northern Triangle and Mexico, showing that Biden’s crisis is global.
At least 96 people on the terror watchlist have been apprehended trying to enter the U.S. between ports of entry so far this fiscal year.
More than 6.6 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border since Biden took office.
This includes the 1.4 million gotaways have escaped past Border Patrol into the U.S.
Border officials say that the official number of gotaways vastly undercounts the illegal immigrants who make it into the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations estimates that Mexican cartels are now making $13 billion a year smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S.
Illicit drugs are flowing into the country at an alarming rate with only 5 to 10% being intercepted as border officials struggle to contain the smuggling.
3,236 pounds of deadly fentanyl was seized at the southern border in April alone, with much more getting through.
The amount of fentanyl seized in April is the equivalent of more than 734 million lethal doses.
With Title 42 ending, the Biden administration has been wholly unprepared for a surge in illegal immigration.
Even before the end of Title 42, Border Patrol officials reported that their facilities were already “at capacity .”
Biden’s only solution, which has since been blocked by a federal judge, has been to mass release illegal immigrants into border communities.
Republican leaders in Congress and in Republican-led states will continue to hold Biden and the Democrats accountable for the humanitarian crisis they created.
The bottom line:
By removing Title 42, Joe Biden is worsening the crisis his open border agenda created. Biden is empowering drug smugglers and human traffickers, making American communities less safe, and creating the worst border crisis in DHS history, yet he doesn’t care.
Debt Ceiling
Biden and Democrats refused to negotiate with House Republicans on the debt limit until they passed a plan to address it. So Republicans passed one.
What you need to know:
It took Biden 104 days to meet with Speaker Kevin McCarthy about the debt limit.
Why did it take Biden that long to simply meet with the Speaker and agree to a negotiations structure?
While Biden was playing politics, House Republicans stepped up and passed a bill to responsibly raise the debt limit.
It is full of commonsense proposals to save taxpayers’ money that even Democrats, including Biden himself, have supported and applauded.
Democrats' failed tax and spend policies caused this debt crisis.
Since President Biden took office in January 2021, he and House Democrats have increased the 10-year spending trajectory by $10 trillion.
This includes ramming through their $2 trillion so-called "American Rescue Plan" that ignited the highest spike in consumer prices in forty
years.
After passing the "American Rescue Plan," Democrats moved on, passing the so-called "Inflation Reduction Act," which included:
$80 billion to the IRS in order to target working families with audits.
$400+ billion for Green New Deal initiatives.
Biden’s Executive Actions have totaled OVER $1.5 trillion in spending,
including Democrats’ student loan giveaway to the wealthy.
House Republicans committed to a responsible debt ceiling increase. The Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023:
Limits federal spending by:
Ending the era of reckless Washington spending.
Saves taxpayer dollars by:
Reclaiming unspent COVID funds;
Defunding Biden's IRS army;
Repealing "Green New Deal" tax credits;
Prohibiting Biden's student loan giveaway to the wealthy.
Grows the economy by:
Strengthening the workforce and reducing childhood poverty;
Preventing Executive overreach and restoring Article I;
Lowers energy costs and utilities.
The bottom line:
Joe Biden is leaving American workers and families behind, as higher prices on everything from gas to groceries are here to stay under his reckless agenda. Republican-led states are driving the economic comeback with more jobs created and lower unemployment despite the failures of Biden and the Democrats. Republican leadership delivers, unleashes prosperity, and lifts up all Americans.
Durham Report Release
After nearly four years of investigation, Durham found that the FBI lacked the actual evidence to investigate then-candidate Donald Trump's campaign.
What you need to know:
The more than 300-page Durham report found that “neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion” to begin investigating Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
The FBI and DOJ “failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law.”
The report found that “there was significant reliance on investigative leads provided or funded (directly or indirectly) by Trump's political opponents.”
Individuals at the highest levels of the federal government allowed the Crossfire Hurricane investigation to continue despite any firm evidence of collusion.
Simply put - this was the weaponization of the federal government against a political opponent.
Democrats and the mainstream media have pushed the Russian collusion hoax for more than 6 years.
In 2019, Joe Biden said, “I absolutely agree” when a woman, repeating the Russia collusion hoax, claimed President Trump was an “illegitimate president.”
As recently as January 2023, Adam Schiff was still pushing the Russian collusion hoax.
Hillary Clinton repeatedly cited the Russian collusion hoax to insist the 2016 election was “stolen” from her.
Even the mainstream media has admitted the Durham report is “devastating to the FBI.”
The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee has already reached out to the Justice Department to have Special Counsel John Durham testify next week.
The bottom line:
For our country’s sake there must be honesty, integrity, and accountability.
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