Analysis: Biden’s ‘Got-Away Tsunami’ Imports Illegal Alien Population the Size of Philadelphia; ‘Got-Away’ Tsunami Is the Best Measure of the Decline in Border Security Under Biden

Analysis: Biden’s ‘Got-Away Tsunami’ Imports Illegal Alien Population the Size of Philadelphia:

In less than three years, President Joe Biden’s “got-away tsunami” has imported an illegal alien population the size of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a new analysis detailed.

From Fiscal Year 2021 to April 2023, less than three full fiscal years, Biden’s policies at the United States-Mexico border have allowed more than 1.5 million illegal aliens to successfully cross into the nation’s interior undeterred by federal officials.

The massive “got-away tsunami,” as detailed by Andrew Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies, is triple the got-away inflow that occurred under former President Trump from Fiscal Year 2017 to Fiscal Year 2020 when there were about 521,000 illegal alien got-aways.

Arthur said the got-away total under Biden is arguably one of the most important factors in determining the administration’s failure in controlling illegal immigration.

“The president’s policies and his DHS secretary’s performance are increasingly degrading U.S. border security and endangering us all — and we have the numbers to prove it,” Arthur wrote.—>READ MORE HERE

‘Got-Away’ Tsunami Is the Best Measure of the Decline in Border Security Under Biden

Biden’s policies and Mayorkas’s performance are increasingly degrading border security, endangering us all — and here are the numbers to prove it

Critics of the administration’s immigration policies have largely focused on DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ failure “to achieve and maintain operational control” of the Southwest border, a 16-year-old statutory mandate. Not that they’re wrong, but they’re missing two much more telling border-control metrics also enshrined in statute: the “got-away” rate, which has exploded ever since Biden took office; and the “unlawful border crossing effectiveness rate”, a measure of CBP’s effectiveness in securing the border, which has increasingly declined even as the Biden administration assures Americans that it has the border well in hand. The president’s policies and his DHS secretary’s performance are increasingly degrading U.S. border security and endangering us all — and we have the numbers to prove it.

Biden’s Border Record. By any reasonable standard, the Southwest border was in pretty good shape when President Biden took office. As Biden’s first Border Patrol Chief, Rodney Scott, described the situation in a September 2021 letter to Senate leadership, the prior administration bequeathed the current occupant of the Oval Office “what was arguably the most effective border security in” U.S. history.

Things went downhill quickly, according to Scott, as “Common sense border security recommendations from experienced career professionals [were] ignored and stymied by inexperienced political employees”.

Those “inexperienced political employees” Scott referenced were likely taking their orders from the top, as Biden quickly rescinded nearly all the policies his predecessor had implemented to deter illegal migration at the U.S.-Mexico line, most prominently the “Migrant Protection Protocols” (MPP), better known as “Remain in Mexico”.

Briefly, section 235(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) requires DHS to detain all “applicants for admission” — including illegal entrants — deemed inadmissible by Border Patrol agents and CBP officers at the nation’s borders.

As a Supreme Court filing by Biden’s own DOJ reveals, both the Obama and Trump administration largely complied with that statutory detention mandate. Some 91 percent of all aliens encountered by CBP at the Southwest border in FY 2013 were detained in whole or part throughout their removal proceedings, as were 83 percent as recently as FY 2018.

The demographics of illegal entrants shifted quickly in FY 2019, when more than 55 percent of migrants apprehended entering illegally at the Southwest border were adult migrants travelling with children in “family units” (FMUs). —>READ MORE HERE

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