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10 Examples That Show How Nightmarish The Worst Border Crisis In Modern American History Has Become

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If U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel are intercepting more than 100,000 migrants a month as they try to illegally cross the southern border, how many more are able to make it through undetected?  In recent days, there has been a whole bunch of news stories about the nightmarish border crisis that we are currently facing.  Now that President Trump is out of the White House, vast numbers of migrants have been flooding toward our southern border over the past couple of months.  They are desperate for a better life, and the perception that Joe Biden is implementing “open border policies” gives them hope that they will be allowed in.

But when they try to cross the border, approximately 70 percent of those that are intercepted by CBP are turned away

Customs and Border Protection officers have encountered over 100,000 migrants at the border in February alone, highlighting how overwhelming the situation has become.

The vast majority of migrants – around 70%, according to one source – are expelled via public health order Title 42 that allows authorities to quickly return migrants to their country of travel.

But of course, countless more migrants are making it in through gaps in our porous border security.  When the Daily Mail sent a team down to the Rio Grande, they witnessed traffickers bringing migrants across the river over and over again

As the night drew on, this brief, chaotic encounter was repeated again and again as scores of migrants crossed one of the narrowest sections of the Rio Grande with virtual impunity.

Over a two-hour period we watched in disbelief as the three-man trafficking crew made five drop-offs, cramming as many as ten people into a boat designed for four.

Of the 96 newcomers they dumped onto a slippery riverbank in Roma, an hour’s drive west of McAllen, 13 were unaccompanied children, including sisters aged five and 12.

This sort of thing is happening at various points along the southern border night after night, and yet nothing is done to stop it.

Of course, CBP personnel can’t be everywhere, and without a doubt, they have their hands full on a constant basis.

Thanks to the “catch and release” policy that has been instituted by the Biden administration, many of those that the CBP is able to detain are processed and then released into the country

Under Biden’s revisions, single men and women will still be sent back but families with young children will be taken to a Border Patrol facility, processed and released with an I-862 form – a notice to appear before an immigration court at a later date.

Needless to say, only a very small percentage of those migrants ever show up at immigration court.

It is an absolutely disastrous policy, and Biden administration officials know this.

But they just keep doing it anyway.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the agency that is tasked with protecting our borders, and their job has become a complete and utter nightmare.

The following are 10 quotes that come directly from the official CBP Twitter account that demonstrate how bad the crisis on the border has now become…

“In February, CBP encountered 100,441 persons attempting entry along the SW border. This is a 28% increase over January.”

“Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended multiple people attempting to illegally enter the U.S. through the Rio Grande River. Several individuals drifted back to the Mexican side of the river on inner tubes.”

“Border Patrol agents conducting a train check found 16 people inside of a storage container after discovering that the seal from the storage container’s door had been broken. The group was from Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.”

“#USBP agents assigned to the Laredo North Station apprehended 111 individuals during three separate human smuggling attempts involving commercial trailers north of Laredo, Texas.”

“Within a 12-hour period, the Laredo Sector Border Patrol Horse Patrol Unit apprehended 125 individuals in 3 different human smuggling attempts”

“Over the weekend, @CBPRGV Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande City Station encountered two large groups crossing into the U.S., leading to the apprehension of 247 individuals from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Romania.”

“On Wednesday, CBP officers in Laredo seized 28 containers manifested as acrylic paint, holding a total of 1,234lbs of meth. The estimated street value of the seizure is over $24M.”

“CBP agents and officers have seized more than 75,100lbs of methamphetamine during the first five months of FY21, a 9% increase over the same time last year.”

“CBP agents and officers have seized more than 43,300lbs of cocaine during the first five months of FY21, a 64% increase over the same time last year.”

“CBP agents and officers have seized more than 4,900lbs of fentanyl during the first five months of FY21, already surpassing the total for all of FY20.”

In January, the number of migrants intercepted by CBP was about twice the level that was reported in January 2020.

And then as you just read about above, the number of migrants intercepted in February was 28 percent higher than January.

What is going to happen if the numbers just keep going up like this?

According to one CBP source, the number of migrants has gone “from a trickle to a torrent” since Biden entered the White House…

But as a well-placed Border Patrol source told us under condition of anonymity: ‘The cartels don’t know or care what the actual policies or politics are.

‘They just tell the migrants that Biden will let them stay and the migrants believe it because that’s the rhetoric he used on the campaign trail.

‘The numbers have exploded since he took office. It went from a trickle to a torrent.’

What is really ironic is that this is about the worst possible time to be moving into the United States, but of course, the migrants that are trying to come in illegally don’t realize this.

Most of them truly believe that life will be so much better if they can just get to America, and many of them are willing to go to extreme lengths to get across the border.

Brave CBP officials will continue to do their jobs, but the Biden administration will continue to undermine them at every turn, and that means that the crisis at the border is not going away any time soon.

Article posted with permission from Michael Snyder


Michael Snyder

Michael T. Snyder is a graduate of the University of Florida law school and he worked as an attorney in the heart of Washington D.C. for a number of years. Today, Michael is best known for his work as the publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog. Michael and his wife, Meranda, believe that a great awakening is coming and are working hard to help bring renewal to America. Michael is also the author of the book The Beginning Of The End
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