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Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy is sounding the alarm on just how bad the immigration crisis has gotten at the U.S.-Mexico border. Roy is calling for President Joe Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to be impeached.
Roy spoke about the number of illegal immigrants encountered at America’s southern border, which got a response from conservative commentator Jesse Kelly, who said: “What Joe Biden is doing at our border is impeachable. It’s more impeachable than Watergate. This is an attack on the sovereignty of America and it’s coming from the Oval Office. Republicans should move to impeach after 2022.”
Roy responded to Kelly’s tweet by endorsing the idea of impeaching Biden and Mayorkas.
A year-end report House has not shed a nice light on the immigration policies of President Joe Biden. The report showed that more migrants were caught at the border in October and November of 2022 than in the entirety of 2020, the Center For Immigration Studies reported.
Andrew Arthur, who is a former immigration court judge and is now with the Center for Immigration Studies, said that the 411,000 illegal immigrants caught crossing in those months were greater than those caught in the entirety of 2020.
“In November, agents at the Southwest border apprehended more than 206,000 illegal migrants, an increase over October’s apprehension totals (just fewer than 205,000), and the highest total for that month ever (records go back to November 1999). There are any number of ways to look at last month’s apprehension totals, and none of them are good. Agents at the Southwest border set a new apprehension record in FY 2022, when they caught more than 2.2 million illegal entrants, blowing away the old record (set in FY 2021) by more than 547,000,” the former judge said,” Arthur said.
“November is the second month of the federal government’s new fiscal year, and last month agents apprehended nearly 40,000 more illegal migrants than they did in November 2021 — a 23 percent increase. In October and November — the first two months of FY 2023 — agents have caught more than 411,000 aliens who entered illegally over the Southwest border,” his report said.
“That’s more apprehensions in just two months than agents made in all of FY 2011, FY 2012, FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017, FY 2018, or FY 2020. Only Going to Get Worse. As bad as these apprehension numbers are, they’re only going to get worse once CDC orders, issued pursuant to Title 42 of the U.S. Code in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, expire. Those orders direct DHS to expel all illegal migrants at the nation’s land borders,” he said.
“Even though CDC’s Title 42 orders mandate the expulsion of aliens who have crossed the U.S.-Mexico line illegally, just fewer than 65,100 illegal migrants apprehended at the Southwest border were expelled in November under Title 42 — 31.6 percent of the total. That was the fewest migrants expelled under Title 42 in a month since January 2021, a month in which agents apprehended just over 75,000 illegal entrants and expelled more than 62,000 (an 82.7 percent expulsion rate),” the former judge said.
“Why has the Title 42 expulsion rate dropped? The Biden administration doesn’t like Title 42, and the president tried to end the program in late May, only to be prevented from doing so by a federal judge in Louisiana on May 20. The judge in that case (federal district court Judge Robert Summerhays) issued that order in a suit brought by a coalition of states who were concerned that the end of Title 42 would lead to a surge of illegal migrants at the border,” he said.
“Concerned with good reason. In March, DHS estimated that up to 18,000 aliens per day would cross the Southwest border illegally once Title 42 ended. To put that figure into context, agents apprehended an average of 6,875 aliens per day in November, a record-setting month for apprehensions,” his report said.
“That means that the number of aliens crossing the border illegally could more than double after Title 42 ends, and so Judge Summerhays’ order brought needed relief to already overwhelmed Border Patrol agents.
“It likely won’t last, because on November 15, a different district court judge (Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia) ordered DHS to stop expelling illegal migrants under Title 42, effective December 21,” he said.