Newly released U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data shows 233,740 illegal immigrants were apprehended attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in November, making this the highest total for November in DHS history. That is a 332 percent increase from the average number of November apprehensions during the Trump administration.
Over 13,000 unaccompanied children were apprehended during the month.
At least 9 people on the terror watchlist have been apprehended trying to enter the U.S. between ports of entry so far this fiscal year.
142,038 illegal immigrants were apprehended from countries outside the Northern Triangle and Mexico. At least 5.3 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border since President Joe Biden took office. This includes the nearly 4.3 million illegal immigrants that Customs and Border Protection has apprehended and the more than 1 million gotaways that have escaped past Border Patrol into the U.S.
Border officials say that the official number of gotaways vastly undercounts the illegal immigrants who make it into the U.S.
No administration in the modern history of this country has done more damage, killed the morale of Border Patrol agents and unleashed death, destruction, rapes, murders and mayhem at our border like the Biden Admin.
Carter Admin takes a distant 2nd place from 1976 to 1980.
— Border Patrol Union – NBPC (@BPUnion) December 20, 2022
In a tweet on December 22, a day before the shocking numbers were released, the National Border Patrol Union (NBPC) said, “No administration in the modern history of this country has done more damage, killed the morale of Border Patrol agents and unleashed death, destruction, rapes, murders and mayhem at our border like the Biden Admin. Carter Admin takes a distant 2nd place from 1976 to 1980.”
Republicans say illicit drugs are flowing into the country at an alarming rate, with only a fraction being intercepted as border officials struggle to contain the smuggling.
Nearly 2,900 pounds of deadly fentanyl and 10,722 pounds of methamphetamine were seized at the southern border in November alone, with much more likely getting through.
Nogales POE: Another million fentanyl pills seized in 24 hours.
On Wednesday night, CBP officers found approximately 230,600 fentanyl pills in the spare tire wheel well of a car.
On Thursday, officers took down approximately 832,000 fentanyl pills secreted throughout a vehicle. pic.twitter.com/OrEMA8tP7c— Port Director Michael W. Humphries (@CBPPortDirNOG) December 23, 2022
Joshua Sharfstein of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health said, “If they’re seizing a lot, it’s because a lot is coming in.”
The amount of fentanyl seized in November is the equivalent of more than 650 million lethal doses.
Deadly rainbow fentanyl, which is designed by cartels to target children and teens, has been increasingly caught crossing the border and is now in at least 26 states.
Fentanyl overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans age 18 to 45, and synthetic opioid deaths have skyrocketed 80 percent in two years. In fact, more than 11 million fentanyl pills have been seized, including deadly rainbow fentanyl, at the Nogales, Arizona port of entry alone since October 1.