Illegal border crossings are expected to reach over two million this year, crushing President Joe Biden’s disaster 2021 numbers and breaking the all-time record set in 2000, according to two new projections.
Border experts said last calendar year’s total of 1,946,012 “encounters” at the border will be surpassed and hit 2.1 million this year, enough to make the fifth-largest city in the United States and almost reach the population of Houston, Texas.
Since the numbers of illegal immigrants crossing the border have already been breaking records since the fiscal year began in October, fiscal 2022 is also expected to see 2.1 million. That number will hit as the country begins to vote in the midterm congressional elections, adding to the likely negative results facing Democrats.
“Democrats should put themselves on suicide watch,” said border analyst Steven Kopits of Princeton Policy Advisors, which predicts border numbers. “It is hard to overstate the disgrace of the Biden administration’s border policy.”
Former federal immigration judge Andrew Arthur, now an analyst with the Center for Immigration Studies, agreed with the warning from Kopits and reported that crossing numbers “will exceed 2.1 million” this year. He said those numbers “have never been seen before at the Southwest border.”
Both blamed Biden’s open-door policies for the surge. By ignoring the crisis, migrants are rushing in like never before.
What’s more, many are not being turned away and are even being reimbursed for airfare to cities around the country. New reports have also shown the administration is secretly filling jets and flying illegal immigrants to smaller cities in the nation.
“This is not a matter of Democrats or Republicans, but rather the unbending incompetence of the Biden administration,” Kopits said in his report.
