Illegal Crossings Skyrocket At Southern Border As GOP Ponders Using Its Purse Power To Demand Security

BY: JORDAN BOYD
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023



Informal tallies from agents and reporters on the ground suggest well over 200,000 people tried cross the U.S. southern border last month.

Certain areas of the U.S. Southern border reached a new level of crisis this week when thousands of illegal border crossers flooded into the U.S. daily, overwhelming border patrol.

The sudden daily influx stunned underequipped regions like Eagle Pass, TX, Tuscon, AZ, and Cochise County, AZ, which are experiencing some of the highest numbers of illegal border crossings in their history.

Republicans have a chance to address the deadliest border crisis in the world by demanding border security as a prerequisite for their votes on spending bills. Yet, some GOP members of Congress are still toying with simply giving into the Biden administration’s spending desires without addressing the nation’s border problems.

A chorus of Biden officials and corporate media mouthpieces insist that the border is secure and not open to millions of migrants forcing their way into the U.S. As a result, the White House would prefer to send security support and funds to Ukraine instead of funneling some of next year’s spending to the southern border and agencies attempting to protect it.




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Biden says the border is “safe and orderly and humane.

”Kamala says “we have a secure border.

”Mayorkas says “the border is secure.”

They are all liars.




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The U.S. border is not open to unlawful migration: https://go.dhs.gov/4sf

La frontera de Estados Unidos no está abierta para inmigración ilegal: https://go.dhs.gov/4Mv



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Boots on the ground at popular crossing points and overcrowded migrant holding facilities, however, tell a different story.

Fox News’s Bill Melugin reported that, in Eagle Pass on Monday morning, more than 2,200 people circumvented the legal port of entry to sneak into the Lone Star State.



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BREAKING: One of the largest mass illegal crossings we have ever seen took place in Eagle Pass, TX this morning, w/ Border Patrol sources telling us over 2,200 people crossed there since midnight. It happened right next to the port of entry, as illegal immigrants continue to…Show more

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10:02 AM · Sep 18, 2023

Tuscon, Melugin and Fox News also reported, “saw a staggering 13,000 illegal crossings this week alone.”

“And it is just one of nine sectors at the southern border,” Melugin noted.




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NEW: We witnessed Border Patrol drop off & release this Guatemalan family at a random Dollar Tree store in the Tucson, AZ sector where migrant street releases have been underway due to overcrowding in CBP facilities. The family had no idea where they were, or what to do next. The…Show more



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12:22 PM · Sep 16, 2023

Overall, this weekend yielded more than 20,000 illegal border crosser arrests. Many who were caught will quickly be released into the U.S. Because of the backlog in our immigration courts. Some of these migrants will waityears for a court date. There is very little that can be done if an illegal border crosser chooses to ignore his audience with a judge.

This weekend’s shocking influx doesn’t include the trainfuls of migrants eagerly making their way to the southern border.



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**NEW VIDEO**FOX News sources capture a FerroMex train bursting with migrants out of Zacatecas heading to our southern border right now… cheering and clearly not heeding the message: “do not come”@FoxNews



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6:01 PM · Sep 17, 2023 from Washington, DC

Nor does it account for the estimated tens of thousands of “gotaways” who evade arrest each month thanks to explicit instructions from the Biden White House that law enforcement should avoid apprehending most illegal border crossers.



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NEW: We witnessed numerous illegal immigrants dressed in camouflage using ropes to scale the border wall, then run off into the desert without apprehension in Naco, AZ. A smuggler on the wall guided them. There have been over 1.5 million gotaways under Biden admin. There are…



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We saw this happening last year in the same silt as well. Agents tell us this happens pretty much every single morning and they do not have the manpower to apprehend most of them. https://x.com/billmelugin_/status/1569696006639345667?s=46&t=3r0C795y7EMxoYrok_At6Q…

11:52 AM · Sep 17, 2023

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has yet to release its southwest border apprehension data for August, but informal tallies from agents and reporters on the ground suggest well over 200,000 people illegally attempted to cross the U.S. southern border last month.

The rise in record-breaking border crossings paired with September’s alarming numbers means well over 2 million illegal border crossers will have been arrested and likely released by the end of the 2023 fiscal year.

Members of the House Freedom Caucus warned in August they wouldn’t support a GOP-led continuing resolution unless both the House and Senate curb the raging border crisis, among other hot-button issues.

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy recognizes the threat border problems pose to the security of the nation yet has shown hesitancy at his colleagues’ attempt to use “the power of the purse” to demand change.



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Every Member of Congress should receive a classified briefing from the Biden Administration to learn exactly what is going on at our southern border—especially the details regarding a person associated with ISIS who was hired to bring people across the border.



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Since the spending squabble began, McCarthy’s priority was preventing a government shutdown. He doubled down on that commitment shortly before proposing a stopgap bill that would keep the government funded through October 31.

“I want to make sure we don’t shut down,” McCarthy said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “I don’t think that is a win for the American public and I definitely believe it’ll make our hand weaker if we shut down.”

The House Freedom Caucus is expected to support the continuing resolution because it contains border provisions, including immediately resuming border wall construction, boosting funds for Border Patrol, beefing up security technology, and narrowing asylum policy.

Senate Republicans, who repeatedly side with Democrats on passing President Joe Biden’s spending wish list, however, are unlikely to sign off on a plan that contains none of the “emergency funding” the regime requested for Ukraine and other causes even if it forces a Democrat reconciliation on the border crisis created by their president and his administration.

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