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Washington, D.C. (October 11, 2023) - The Center for Immigration Studies released an analysis of a House Judiciary Committee report titled “The Biden Border Crisis: New Data and Testimony Show How the Biden Administration Opened the Southwest Border and Abandoned Interior Enforcement,” based on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data. The comprehensive report, compiled by the Majority Republicans on the Committee, describes the broken state of the immigration system under the Biden administration and its failures to enforce the immigration laws, but most importantly provides extensive detail and analysis on the human cost of Biden’s border and immigration policies.
More than 6 million aliens have been encountered at the Southwest border by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) since President Biden took office. Of these, 5.4 million were illegal entrants apprehended by Border Patrol agents, and nearly 618,000 were inadmissible aliens deemed so by CBP officers at border ports of entry.
Critically, the report highlights the fact that, despite DHS’s processing of over 2.6 million aliens for removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), actual removals under Biden have been shockingly low. Only 5,993 illegal aliens who were encountered at the Southwest border and placed in removal proceedings before an immigration judge were actually removed by the Biden administration by the end of March, meaning the vast majority of those aliens -- 99.7% -- remain in the U.S.
The report also highlights other data that the administration would prefer to hide -- that 1.7 million-plus “got-aways” have entered the country under Biden and 205,473 others have entered thanks to Biden’s “illegal categorical parole programs.”
Andrew Arthur, the Center’s fellow in law and policy and author of the analysis, writes, “All of this raises the question of whether destroying our immigration system hasn’t been the administration’s plan all along, all the better to extort the massive amnesty it’s been demanding since Day One in exchange for a modicum of enforcement.”
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