Most people don’t know how bad the border crisis is | Washington Examiner
MOST PEOPLE DON’T KNOW HOW BAD THE BORDER CRISIS IS. T
his week could mark the most consequential development on the U.S.-Mexico border since January 2021, when President Joe Biden essentially opened the nation’s doors to millions of illegal border crossers. On Wednesday, Title 42, the Trump-era measure that allows the U.S. government to quickly return illegal crossers to Mexico on the grounds of preventing the spread of COVID, will expire. After that, officials expect a flood of illegal crossers, all coming into the United States confident that they, like hundreds of thousands before them just this year, will be allowed to stay.The disaster will come on top
of the Biden administration’s currently disastrous border policy. In fiscal 2022, the period from Oct. 1, 2021, to Sept. 30, 2022, Border Patrol agents encountered a record number of immigrants crossing illegally into the U.S. 2,378,944. Add to that the estimated 600,000 illegal crossers who got away without any contact with the Border Patrol, and that means close to 3 million border crossers in a single year. The two months since the beginning of the new fiscal year have seen crossings at an even higher rate. And that is before the Title 42 change.Already, the numbers have risen to unheard-of levels. Recently, the Border Patrol reported encountering 16,000 immigrants in just 48 hours 8,000 per day. Compare that to the assessment of Jeh Johnson, former President Barack Obama’s head of homeland security, who once said 1,000 encounters a day constituted a crisis. Now, there are predictions that post-Title 42 encounters might hit as many as 14,000 a day.