What is happening at the Southern border of the United States is disgusting and we only have Joe Biden to blame! Just The News is reporting that U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations agents are on track this fiscal year to arrest the greatest number of illegal foreign nationals with criminal convictions in recorded history.
"It's just total common sense to have a secure southern border. We have to know who's coming into our country." — Oklahoma's @GovStitt explains why he sent Guardsmen to Texas border pic.twitter.com/yDg0x5lRYM
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) August 3, 2023
Border Patrol detentions of gang members and weapons seizures are down significantly. However, this isn’t necessarily a good thing as a former border chief claims those numbers have dropped because there are far fewer agents in the field, especially between ports of entry.
At this time the majority of people with criminal convictions who are being caught are arrested at ports of entry. This fiscal year to date, OFO agents encountered more than 15,000 people with criminal convictions. This is up from around 6,500 in the 2021 fiscal year. In the 2022 fiscal year, they apprehended nearly 17,000.
Border Patrol releases migrants from the FBI’s Terrorist Watchlist because border agents “were busy processing an increased flow of migrants”. https://t.co/i1EmnmSCIM
— Center for Immigration Studies (@CIS_org) July 6, 2023
Just the News reports that “Among them, agents arrested 8,452 identified in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) compared to 10,389 arrested in fiscal 2022 and 5,929 arrested in fiscal 2018.”
The NCIC is the national database law enforcement officers use to share information.
Border Patrol agents have also encountered 9,244 illegal foreign nationals with criminal convictions or who are wanted by law enforcement this fiscal year alone. That’s in comparison to 2,438 encounters with criminal noncitizens in 2020, and 12,028 in 2022.
Watch: Art Del Cueto claims untraceable criminals are coming across the southern border https://t.co/3ndsDCg6vl
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) August 4, 2023
However, it is reported that BP arrests of noncitizens with outstanding wants or warrants are down significantly. In the 2019 fiscal year, under the Trump administration, 4,153 people were arrested in this category, the most in the past seven fiscal years.
However, that may sound good on paper, the truth of the matter is the fact that those crossing our southern border outnumber and outmaneuver the brave men and women who are trying to secure it. Sates like Texas have called in the National Guard and even have state troopers doing “tours” along the board.
"Texas is going to take this case all the way to the United States Supreme Court to defend the rights guaranteed to us."
Gov. @GregAbbott_TX responds to being sued by the Biden administration over the deployment of a floating barricade at the US southern border. pic.twitter.com/kqaepkIjqL
— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) August 3, 2023
But the numbers are devastating when you realize that far more get past law enforcement in the areas between guarded entry points than we can rightfully estimate. A majority of which are gang members, human traffickers, and their victims, and many more who have criminal intent.
