A new analysis reveals that the number of migrants who have illegally crossed the southwest border under the Biden Administration exceeds the total population of 36 individual states in the country.
Fox News compiled numbers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and found that nearly 7.3 million migrants have entered the country irregularly since Biden took office in 2021.
The report highlights that the total number of encounters at the southwest land border recorded since 2021 already reaches 7,298,486, a figure that represents approximately 18.7% of the population of California, 23.9% of Texas, 32.3% of Florida and 37.3% of New York. However, this number exceeds the population of states such as Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
According to Fox News, if the number of illegal immigrants who entered the country under the Biden Administration banded together to establish a new city, it would be the second largest city in the United States after New York City. It should be noted that this figure does not even include the 1.8 million known “gotaways” that evaded law enforcement.
“This surge is the result of the choices by the Biden administration”
Eric Ruark, research director at Numbers USA, a nonprofit that advocates for immigration restrictions, said: “This unprecedented surge in illegal immigration isn’t an accident. It is the result of deliberate policy choices by the Biden administration.”
Ruark noted that the government has refused to enforce existing immigration laws, facilitating illegal border crossings through policies such as catch and release, mass parole and offering temporary work permits to foreigners who make dubious claims to seek asylum. He stated that, in reality, the United States government is contributing to the process of smuggling and human trafficking for Mexican cartels.
The report also highlights that so far this fiscal year, 961,537 border encounters have already been recorded and warns that if the same immigration flow continues, fiscal year 2024 will surpass last year’s record of 2,475,669 encounters on the southwest border, “a figure that alone exceeds the population of New Mexico, a border state.”
