RPA Weekly Recap | September 25, 2023 National Voter Registration Day Last Tuesday, September 19th was National Voter Registration Day. Make sure you are registered to vote in the 2024 elections! Click here to check your voter registration status.  To register, or update your registration, head to the Arkansas Secretary of State website, or visit your local County Clerk. Congressman French Hill (R-AR) Discusses government funding negotiations Joe Kernen | CNBC Full Interview Here   Arkansas Tourism Ticker: Job numbers rise, 2% tourism tax sets new record Michael Tilley | Talk Business & Politics Full Article Here Crawford, Westerman question Buttigieg over infrastructure law, White House policies Alex Thomas | Arkansas Democrat Gazette Full Article Here Congressional colleagues honor Womack during portrait unveiling Alex Thomas | Arkansas Democrat Gazette Full Article Here   Biden's Border Crisis Joe Biden once again owns the worst year at the border on record, after breaking the previous record set last year. What you need to know: New data shows 232,972 illegal immigrants were encountered attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in August – a 27% increase in crossings from previous month and the highest total for August in DHS history. For 30 straight months, monthly encounters have been higher than even the highest month seen under the previous administration. With roughly 7,500 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" encounters a day "overwhelms the system." Joe Biden once again owns the worst year at the border on record, after breaking the previous record set last year. FY2023 saw 2,388,000 illegal crossings, not including “gotaways.” The Administration refuses to acknowledge this is a crisis that is impacting all communities. More than 7.5 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border since Biden took office. This includes the 6 million illegal immigrants that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has encountered and the more than 1.5 million gotaways that 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. 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. 1,773 pounds of deadly fentanyl and 11,505 pounds of methamphetamine were seized at the southern border in August alone, with much more getting through. The amount of fentanyl seized in August is the equivalent of more than 402 million lethal doses. Since Biden took office, more than 23 tons of fentanyl have crossed the southern border, enough to kill roughly 10.5 billion people. The bottom line: This is the worst border crisis on record, and it has lasted for 30 months. Biden’s policies are directly to blame – border experts and people crossing the border themselves have said as much. Yet, Democrats insist Biden’s policies are working. Presented Without Comment   Republican Party of Arkansas | 1201 W. 6th St, Little Rock, AR 72201 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected] powered by Try email marketing for free today!