The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that 240,988 illegal immigrants were encountered at our Southern Border in October 2023, making it the highest total for October in Department of Homeland Security history. This report is further confirmation that Joe Biden’s Far Left open border policies are not working and comes just a month after CBP reported that in Fiscal Year 2023, there were 2.48 million illegal immigrant encounters, the highest annual total ever recorded in a single year.
The Biden Administration’s derelict policies generated a self-inflicted national security and humanitarian crisis. The Biden Administration’s broken border policies have increased the monthly average of illegal crossings by 368 percent in three years. This massive increase is a direct result of President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas’ actions ending border wall construction and deprioritizing immigration policies.
Secretary Mayorkas’ open-border policies have forced Americans to foot the bill for the costs of historically high levels of illegal border crossings. Illegal aliens have strained local health care systems and local government budgets and are making American taxpaying lives more costly and unsafe at their own expense. Illegal immigration costs every American taxpayer a net average of $956—or $1,156 before the taxes paid by illegal aliens are factored in.
This should be a wake-up call for every single American and, most importantly, the Biden White House. Communities across this country, from the smallest border town to our largest city, are dealing with depleted emergency resources, public housing crises, overwhelmed public school systems, damaged or destroyed property, and overwhelming law enforcement costs—burdens these hardworking taxpayers were never prepared for, and should not be forced to pay.
This week on the House floor, we voted on a House Resolution to Impeach Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, for high crimes and misdemeanors. From day one, Secretary Mayorkas lost operational control of the southern border, hung up the open for business sign, and, worst of all, turned his back on the American people. His leadership – or lack of – has fueled over 8 million illegal aliens entering into our nation at never-before-seen levels. Fentanyl is pouring across our border, human smugglers and cartels are capitalizing on the disarray, and terrorists are waltzing into our nation. His leadership is pitiful and a disgrace. I am disappointed that a few of my colleagues voted to kill the impeachment articles.
