On Thursday, Joe Biden will be chasing President Trump to the Southern Border after years of neglecting the Border Crisis and implementing a Far Left open border agenda. It comes at a time when immigration has surged to the number one issue Americans are concerned about and Biden is over 30 points underwater on his handling of the issue. Despite the severity of this crisis, it will be just the second time Biden has visited our Southern Border. 
 
A new Gallup poll released today found that 28% of Americans, the highest percentage ever in a Gallup poll, think immigration has become the number one issue Americans are concerned about, and a record-high 55% of Americans think the large number of illegal immigrants that have entered the United States under Biden is, “a critical threat to U.S. vital interests.” 
 
This Gallup poll comes on the same day that Harvard-Harris released a poll showing that 65% of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of America’s immigration crisis while just 35% approve. According to RealClearPolitics polling average on immigration, Biden is 33.3 points underwater on the issue. 
 
But, just last month, Biden’s White House repeatedly dodged reporters' questions about whether Biden would be visiting the Southern Border anytime soon, and Biden himself had said he had done everything he could to secure our Southern Border. 
 
On January 6, 2024, ABC’s Whit Johnson asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre if Biden had any plans to visit the Southern Border soon, Jean-Pierre dodged the question saying, “The president was there last year.”
 
On January 22, 2024, Jean-Pierre was asked how bad the Biden border crisis had to get for Biden to visit the Southern Border. Jean-Pierre once again dodged the question. 
 
MAKE NO MISTAKE: Joe Biden inherited a secure Southern Border from President Trump and policies to keep our borders secure. But since day one, Biden and his Administration have worked tirelessly to implement their failed Far Left open border policies, which have turned every community into a border community and destroyed countless American families. House Republicans know that border security is national security, and we know the best way to secure our borders is by reimplementing President Trump’s successful policies. That is why we passed the strongest border security bill in history, which Chuck Schumer and Extreme Senate Democrats have refused to bring for a vote.
 
JOE BIDEN AND ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS’ BORDER CRISIS BY THE NUMBERS:

• Since Joe Biden took office:
  • There have been 8.7 million illegal crossings nationwide. 
  • There have been OVER 7.2  MILLION illegal crossings of our Southern Border.
    • The total number of illegal immigrants who have entered through our Southern Border is greater than the population of 36 states. Including;
      1. Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. 
  • There have been 1.8 million known gotaways who evaded U.S. Border Patrol.  
• Since the start of FY 2024 there have been OVER 1 million illegal immigrant encounters.
• In January, there were 176,205 illegal immigrants encountered at the Southern Border. 
  • January was the 35th straight month, where monthly illegal immigrant encounters have been higher than even the highest month seen under President Trump. 
• Under Biden, over 340 of these individuals whose names appear on the terrorist watchlist were stopped trying to cross the Southern Border.
  • So far in FY24, there have been 58 individuals whose names appear on the terrorist watch list who have been stopped trying to enter the U.S. illegally between ports of entry at the Southern Border.
  • This total is more than the encounters in all FY17, FY18, FY19, FY20, FY21, and FY22 combined. 
• Joe Biden's White House claimed that the Southern Border was "secure" just days after the man charged with the horrifying murder of 22-year-old Laken Riley, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, entered the United States illegally. 
  • Biden himself went a step further than that on September 20, 2022, saying that it was "not rational" to deport illegal immigrants from Venezuela. 
• Over 20,000 Communist Chinese nationals have illegally crossed the Southern Border since FY24 began in October. 
  • Communist Chinese nationals are exploiting Joe Biden’s failed Far Left open border policies at “record-breaking figures,” becoming “the fastest-growing demographic entering the country illegally.”
  • The surge in Communist Chinese nationals encountered at our Southern Border has raised serious concerns that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is exploiting the Biden border crisis for nefarious reasons.
• Biden’s Far Left open border policies are to blame for this historic crisis. 
  • There are OVER 60 instances of Joe Biden and his Administration taking actions that undermined our nation’s border security, including halting the construction of the border wall. 
  • In August 2022, Biden and his Administration decided to make the border crisis WORSE by formally ending former President Trump’s successful ‘Remain in Mexico’ program.”
  • The Biden Administration announced on May 10, 2023, that it would allow for the release of some migrants into the U.S. with no way to track them. 
    • Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has now admitted that 40 percent of catch-and-release migrants have disappeared. 
• Despite this historic crisis Joe Biden has only visited the Southern Border ONCE, and it was widely panned as nothing more than a photo-op.