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93 Days Late, Kamala Is FINALLY Going To The Border But Not To The Crisis

Washington, DC, June 25, 2021
It has been 93 days since President Biden appointed Vice President Kamala Harris as his “Border Czar,” and she is FINALLY going to the southern border.  The only problem is Harris will be roughly 800 MILES AWAY from where Biden’s Border Crisis is occurring.  That’s not a Republican talking point. It’s what Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar told Fox News on Thursday.  “[T]he epicenter is down there in the lower Rio Grande, lower part of my district down there. If you look at the numbers that are down there compared to El Paso, you’re not going to get a true picture of what’s happening,” Rep. Cuellar said.  BIDEN’S BORDER CRISIS BY THE NUMBERS: 
  • The 180,034 enforcement encounters at our southern border in May by CBP is a 674% INCREASE from May of 2020. 
  • May is the 3RD STRAIGHT MONTH of 170K+ apprehensions, which hasn’t occurred since 2000.
  • The 180,034 border crossings in May mark a new 21-year high. 
  • CBP has seized MORE fentanyl so far in 2021 than all of 2020.
Despite these near record-high numbers President Biden praised Harris’s handling of the Border crisis yesterday telling reports she "has done a great job so far."