Joe Biden can’t help breaking records… he truly is a historic President. It’s just not the kind of history-making that’s good for the country.
Last month, there were more than 239,400 encounters with illegal immigrants at our southern border. This is the highest number of monthly encounters in the last TWO DECADES.
And it’s not just illegal immigrants flooding across our southern border. Last month, border patrol seized more than 46,700 POUNDS of dangerous drugs like fentanyl.
This is no mistake. Democrats have deliberately failed to enforce America’s border laws and have explicitly encouraged illegal immigration. This is why I’ve called for the impeachment of Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security.
But it’s not enough to just complain about the problem, we have to propose solutions. That’s why I’m introducing legislation to get at the root causes of the illegal immigration crisis: abuse of our asylum laws.
Our asylum laws are being abused. The bill I’m writing will close some of the most exploited asylum loopholes.
Instead of only being able to apply for asylum once migrants cross the border, the bill would aim to establish offices abroad where asylum claims would be made and applicants would await adjudication there, rather than in the United States.
My bill would also funnel migrants to ports of entry - applying for asylum between these points is what is overwhelming our Border Patrol Agents and allowing the cartels to bring drugs into our country as agents struggle to process large groups of migrants.
These are simple policy fixes that the Biden Administration can do to solve the border crisis that they so callously created.