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On the recordMay 23, 2024
President Biden has opened our homeland to the world's criminals. Under his leadership, over 9 million illegal immigrants have crossed our southern border--9 million people. That is more people than the population of 75 percent of our States. Month after month and year after year, the Biden administration is shattering all the wrong records. For example, CBP has reported 1.6 million known ``got-aways'' in the last 3 years, a stark increase from the 1.4 million known ``got-aways'' we saw in a 10-year span from 2010 to 2020. And that is just the known ``got-aways.'' Who really knows how many people have gotten past CBP undetected? And these aren't just plain old numbers, folks. OK? They are people that, too often, include violent criminals who harm Americans. Hardly a day goes by without hearing of another American who has fallen victim to crimes perpetuated by the illegal immigrants the Biden administration has let flood into our country. We all read the stories of the illegals arrested on serious criminal charges and post bail, never to be heard from again. Everyone knows the story of Laken Riley, the 22-year-old nursing student, beaten to death by an illegal immigrant who was in police custody in New York City before being let go. But the crisis only continues. Just last Friday, news broke that Raul Santana, a Mexican national who is in the United States illegally, had his bail dropped from $1 million to $100,000. What did he do?…
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Joni Ernst
Republican · Iowa

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