Published February 26, 2024
BY REP. MIKE SIMPSON
The Biden administration’s open-border policies have fueled crime, undermined public safety and overwhelmed our federal, state and local law enforcement officers. Looking at Fiscal Year 2023 alone, more than 2.3 million migrants illegally entered our country, and illicit fentanyl smuggled into the United States through the southern border killed more than 112,000 Americans. These record-shattering numbers are the tragic reality of President Biden’s border crisis.
Never have I seen such a crisis on our southern border, and it is deeply troubling that the Biden administration denies there’s a problem. Better yet, this administration insists that they don’t “bear responsibility” for this crisis. The sad truth is President Biden and his administration are responsible, and they have no desire to reverse their misguided policies.
In numerous attempts to shift blame, President Biden and his administration have insisted that Congress is the only entity that can stop this crisis. While Congress can enact immigration reform, the president has the power to use his broad executive authority to end the flow of illegal immigration at our southern border today. But, despite this being a top concern for Americans, he refuses to do so on his own.
This crisis no longer only affects the states that border Mexico — every state has become a border state. What’s happening at the border is many of my constituents’ top concern.
Idaho’s growing drug threat is a direct result of the open border. A few weeks ago, Idaho sheriffs visited my office in Washington, D.C., and voiced their concerns about how the lawless border is the worst they have seen in their decades of service. Listening to their firsthand experiences about the rising rate of fentanyl overdoses in Idaho and the amount of illicit drugs pouring into our state was gut-wrenching.
The flow of fentanyl and dangerous substances entering our country should be enough to crack down on border security. We’ve seen fentanyl seizures and overdoses skyrocket throughout the last three years, and these numbers are continuing to grow at an alarming rate. Last year alone, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), including Air and Marine Operations, seized 27,293 pounds of fentanyl coming across the southern border — this astonishing number is enough to kill more than six billion people.
One of the greatest challenges our brave border patrol agents face is the lack of control at the border. The agents serving on the front lines frequently encounter dangerous gangs, cartel members, and human smugglers. Criminal organizations and terrorists are exploiting the crisis at our southern border, threatening the security of our agents who work to keep us safe.
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SOURCE: www.idahostatesman.com
RELATED: Arizona Reeling: Tucson, Pima County Scrambling as Biden Border Crisis Explodes
YUMA, ARIZONA – DECEMBER 08: U.S. Border Patrol agents load immigrants into a bus for transport to a detention facility on December 08, 2021 through the city of Yuma, Arizona. Immigration officials were overwhelmed processing thousands of new arrivals, with many families trying to reach U.S. soil before the court-ordered re-implementation of the Trump-era Remain in Mexico policy. The policy requires asylum seekers to stay in Mexico for the duration of their U.S. immigration court process. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Published February 25, 2024
Pima County, Arizona, and the city of Tucson are scrambling as Biden’s border crisis continues to wreak havoc on American border states.
Tucson officials are engaging in a frenzied search for a place to house illegal immigrants as federal funding comes to an end. And some are suggesting that the illegal border crossers should be bused to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in south Tucson.
Officials are desperately making plans ahead of the expected wave of illegal aliens likely to begin being dropped off at the end of March by Biden’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, according to AZMirror.
Tucson Mayor Regina Romero has been “sounding the alarm” and said it is important to get the city’s plans to meet the next wave of Biden’s illegal immigrants before they come.
Along with shipping the illegal aliens to the Air Force base, Romero also suggested that the city should also send them to Phoenix as federal funding is set to run out in late March.
“What we are about to experience with street releases is homelessness on steroids,” Pima County Administrator Jan Lesher said, according to the Arizona Daily Star.
Lesher added that Biden’s border crisis is taking money away from Tucson residents.
“But every dollar spent helping legally processed asylum seekers move on to their destination cities will be a dollar we can’t spend on county residents who are struggling financially to afford adequate housing, or who are suffering from mental illness or drug and alcohol addiction,” Lesher said.
Meanwhile, officials in Pima County say that the migrants are costing the county a million dollars a month to house them, feed them, and take care of them.
Officials say that they are dealing with 1,000 new border crossers a day, according to KJZZ FM 91.5.
The threat of the Biden administration busing illegal aliens across the country is no mere expectation. Fox News reporter Bill Melugin was shocked to find buses operated by the federal government dropping off dozens of illegal immigrants right in front of his eyes as he reported from San Diego on Friday.
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SOURCE: www.breitbart.com
