Biden border crisis shatters record with 14,509 illegal immigrants encountered in one day

DECLINING SITUATION AT SOUTHERN BORDER UPS ANTE ON SENATE IMMIGRATION TALKS

The most recent record of 12,000 was set last week, according to Fox News. If yesterday’s rate of 14,509 arrests per day continued for a month, it would translate to more than 435,000 immigrant arrests.

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), whose district runs along 800 miles of the 2,000-mile border, described the situation in his region as “all very sad.” Gonzales told the Washington Examiner in a text message Tuesday morning that he believes the situation in Eagle Pass, Texas, a border town where 2,500 immigrants were arrested on Sunday, will continue to decline but that the extent would depend on how the Biden administration responds.

“Depends on how much pressure gets put on U.S. and Mexican officials,” Gonzales wrote.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) reacted to the new one-day record on X, formerly Twitter.

“Another Record: Over 14,500 illegal immigrants have been encountered while entering our country,” Green wrote. “This has been the single worst 24 hours for our Southwest border in our nation’s history.”

Border officials in the Eagle Pass-Del Rio region encountered 3,100 illegal immigrants Monday, while officials in the Tucson region of Arizona encountered 3,089 people.

Government numbers obtained Tuesday show 26,758 immigrants were in custody as of Tuesday morning, including 5,197 in Del Rio, Texas; 5,004 in Tucson, Arizona; 4,968 in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas; and 4,722 in El Paso, Texas.

Existing Border Patrol stations in the Eagle Pass area are too small to accommodate more than several hundred people, so immigrants are being processed at a large tent facility outside town known as “Firefly” for the road that it is located on. The tent facility was set up last year with the intent of holding up to 1,000 immigrants, but as of Tuesday, more than 3,000 immigrants were at the site — putting the facility three times over the legal limit.

Border Patrol is also busing immigrants to other regions for processing. One official at the tent facility told the Washington Examiner that it sends out 30 to 50 large buses of immigrants to other regions each day.

Border Patrol highway checkpoints, including the only one north of Eagle Pass, were shuttered this week as agents were pulled to transport and process migrants.

CBP Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Commissioner Troy Miller called the situation a “serious challenge.”

“To meet this challenge, we are using all available resources to ensure the safety and security of our agents and officers, and the migrants who are often misled and victimized by the transnational criminal organizations,” Miller said in a statement shared following publication. “These smugglers are recklessly putting migrants into harm’s way: in remote locations across the border, onto the tops of trains, or into the waters of the Rio Grande River.”

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Miller added that CBP was imposing new measures targeting the transportation companies south of the border that cartels use to move immigrants north and that the agency needed more funding from Congress to “effectuate consequences for those who do not use the established pathways.”

President Joe Biden has yet to react to the situation.