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“``No end in sight''--that is how one Border Patrol chief described the influx of migrants in the Rio Grande Valley sector of the southern border in March 2021. ``No end in sight.'' That was 2\1/2\ years ago, and there is still no end in sight to this crisis. On Friday, we learned that 232,972 individuals were caught trying to illegally cross our southern border in the month of August--232,972. That is the highest August number yet for the Biden administration. All signs suggest that we are on track for a third recordbreaking year of apprehensions at the southern border. In fact, roughly 11,000 individuals were apprehended attempting to cross our southern border in just 24 hours this past weekend--11,000 in 24 hours. If the White House really thinks it is ``stopping the flow at the border,'' as the White House Press Secretary said last month, it should think again. It is important to note that the numbers I have mentioned only reflect individuals who were actually apprehended. They don't include individuals who have made their way into the country illegally without--without--being caught. Since the beginning of the Biden administration, there have been at least 1.5 million known ``got- aways,'' individuals the Border Patrol detected but was unable to apprehend. The Biden administration's so-called border plan is clearly not working, and State and local governments are stretched thin.…”