Late Night CBP ‘News Dump’ Reveals the Border’s in Freefall

 September is the last month of the federal fiscal year, and in FY 2022, Border Patrol apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico line totaled more than 2.2 million.

• The Southwest border accounted for the lion’s share of those apprehensions: 1,659,206
• Before Biden took office, agents at the Southwest border had never apprehended more than 98,000 illegal migrants in the month of September (they stopped 97,744 in September 2000).

Biden's Policies to Blame

• The president's immigration policies are to blame for the dumpster fire unfolding at the Southwest border
• Biden was the lucky recipient of what Rodney Scott, his first Border Patrol chief, described as "arguably the most effective border security in" U.S. history
• At first, Biden promised to keep it that way

The Decline in Title 42 Expulsions

• The only policy that has provided even a semblance of order at the Southwest border under Biden is a public-health policy, enshrined in a series of orders issued by the CDC pursuant to Title 42 of the U.S. Code in response to the Covid-19 pandemic
• Under Trump, more than 87% of illegal migrants were expelled under Title 42
• That has steadily declined under Biden, who tried to end Title 42 on May 23, only to be stymied in that effort by a federal district court judge.

The Humanitarian Toll

• Biden's policies now have a rather significant death count
• If 856 migrants did die at the border in FY 2022, that would exceed the combined total deaths there for the three fiscal years, FY 2018 to FY 2020
• That's on top of more than 22,000 Border Patrol search-and-rescue efforts during FY 2022 - just slightly less than the previous three years

CBP released its FY 2022 Southwest border statistics late at night, nearly a week after they are normally published, and past the point voters had begun casting ballots to determine which party will control Congress.

• The numbers are deceptive, shabby, and unbecoming of a US agency.

The truth will out

• Now that the truth about the humanitarian disaster at the Southwest border has finally become public, it is incumbent on our nation's leaders on both sides of the aisle to fix it

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