According to new U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) data, Biden’s historic border crisis is only worsening.
There were 164,973 migrant encounters at our southern border in February, up 7% from January and up a shocking 63% from the previous year. 30% of those encountered at the border last month had already been encountered by CBP at least once in the past 12 months. BIDEN’S BORDER CRISIS BY THE NUMBERS:- According to new U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) data, there were 164,973 migrant encounters at our southern border in February, up 7% from January.
- That is a 63% increase from the previous year.
- 30% of those encountered at the border last month had also been encountered at least once in the past 12 months.
- 76% of those apprehended were single adults – an 11% increase from January.
- This was the worst February on record in over two decades.
- Biden and the Far-Left Socialist Democrats are threatening to roll back and eliminate Title 42 implemented under the Trump administration – our strongest tool to deter the flow of illegal immigrants into our country. In February alone, 55% of the total encounters at the Southern Border were processed for expulsion under Title 42.
- According to the newly released report, the Biden administration dropped deportations by roughly 68% last year:
- Deportations dropped from 185,884 in 2020 to just 59,011 in 2021.
- This is the lowest level in 26 years, which dates back to before the agency of ICE was created.
- According to the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, the average daily number of ICE detainees dropped to about 19,200 in 2021, the lowest level in over two decades.
- ICE dropped administrative arrests in the interior of the U.S. by 28% in 2021, detaining just 74,082 compared to 104,000 during fiscal 2020.
- Since Biden took office over 2 MILLION illegal immigrants have been apprehended at our southern border.
- In FY21, 11,201 pounds of illicit fentanyl were seized by Customs and Border Protection, which is enough to kill every American nearly seven times over.
- Fentanyl border seizures increased by 134% in FY2021.
- Now, the majority of America’s fentanyl that is flowing into our communities is being smuggled across the southern border from Mexico.
- Border officials have estimated that nearly 400,000 illegal immigrantshave escaped into the U.S. without being caught under Biden.
- There were 10,763 arrests of migrants with criminal convictions in FY 2021, up from 2,438 in FY 2020 and 4,269 in FY 2019.