On the recordNovember 20, 2024
Mr. President, it has been clear for a while now that an enduring legacy of the Biden-Harris administration will be the historic immigration crisis at our southern border. And I don't use the word ``historic'' lightly, but it is appropriate, because President Biden and Vice President Harris have presided over 4 years of recordbreaking illegal immigration at our southern border. That is right: The 4 highest years of illegal immigration ever recorded at our southern border have occurred on President Biden's and Vice President Harris's watch. I say occurred on their watch, but, of course, this recordbreaking illegal immigration didn't just occur on their watch. The Biden-Harris administration created this crisis. On the day he took office, the President began dismantling President Trump's border security policies, and illegal immigration began surging in response--and kept on surging. Between official U.S. Customs and Border Protection encounters and known ``got-aways''--individuals the Border Patrol saw but was unable to apprehend--there have been somewhere around 10 million--10 million-- migrant encounters at the southern border during this administration. Now, to put that number in perspective, that is larger than the population of the vast majority of U.S. States, and that is just the individuals we know about. There are undoubtedly individuals who have made their way into our country over the past 4 years who have been neither seen nor apprehended.…





