It keeps getting worse.

A year ago, I wrote that I expected the number of illegal immigrants who entered the United States to be about 8 million in Biden’s first term. An average of 2 million a year.

That number seemed inconceivably high to me. A shock. A scandal. A crisis of unprecedented proportions in such matters.

Yeah, well, I underestimated just how bad things could get.

BREAKING: Per CBP sources, there were more than 12,600 migrants encountered at the southern border in the last 24 hours, the highest single day total ever recorded. The true number is *significantly* higher because there are thousands still waiting to be processed in Eagle Pass…

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) December 19, 2023

If these numbers can be extrapolated out–and there is no reason to believe that the 12,600-a-day number will be as high as it gets, given its trajectory–that means more than 5 million illegal immigrants will enter the country by the time the next president is inaugurated on January 20th, 2025.

Five million in a little more than a year. That is like adding a new Alabama in a year. A single year.

"I want to be very clear. Our borders are not open." @SecMayorkas

"The president has done more to secure the border and to deal with this issue of immigration than anybody else." @PressSec

IMPEACHMENT CAN'T COME SOON ENOUGH! pic.twitter.com/4Kx5F2VN3x

— E 🇺🇸 (@Simply4Truth_) December 19, 2023

Biden keeps talking about Republican obstructionism on funding “border security,” but what he means is that he wants more funding to process illegal immigrants as he lets them into the country and gives them a bunch of free stuff. It’s not security that he wants to fund, but rather, he wants to regularize the process of moving people from around the world into this country.

And the MSM is pounding hard on the issue, supporting Biden’s policies and attacking anybody who disagrees as being just like Hitler.

Tapper: If you were to open Mein Kampf, you would find Hitler talking about German blood being ‘poisoned’ by non-German blood. Donald Trump claims immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’ There’s no other way to say it, Trump’s language directly mirrors Hitler’s pic.twitter.com/k0s96nanCd

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) December 19, 2023

It is insane by any normal standard, and while Biden himself may be suffering from dementia, clearly, this is a strategy that has wide support in his administration. The US funds many of the activities south of the border that guide migrants from Central America to the US border, and Left-wing nonprofits provide support to migrants along the way.

Good morning from Lukeville, AZ!

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— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) December 20, 2023

Money is being funneled indirectly by the US government and nonprofits into the coffers of drug cartels, and human trafficking is big business. Unaccompanied children are being flown around the country being used as child labor, and the government has “lost track” of them. As of April of this year, more than 85,000 migrant children have been lost track of by the feds.

85,000. Gone. Poof.

Mayor Brandon Johnson melts down over Texas sending illegals to sanctuary cities:

"IT IS NOT JUST A CHICAGO DYNAMIC!
HE IS ATTACKING OUR COUNTRY!" pic.twitter.com/n0yND8Mv5Q

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 19, 2023

Even Democrat governors and Mayors are starting to speak up now that they have to actually pay the price of dealing with the unchecked flow of migrants. They didn’t care when only Red states had to deal with the problem, but now that it has arrived on their doorsteps, they are waking up to the disaster.

Over the Weekend Katie Hobbs called out the Biden Administration to fix the border.

Things are so bad that she is going to finally have to take action.

When Eric Adams did the same, suddenly the feds were all over him for things from years ago.

I wonder what they will go after… pic.twitter.com/ZFAkA57lqC

— Jason Robertson (@JRobFromMN) December 18, 2023

I have yet to see an argument from a serious person that even a country as large as the United States can absorb 5 million illegal immigrants a year. It simply can’t be done. We have a housing crunch as it is. The cost of home ownership in the United States has been skyrocketing due to high prices and even higher interest rates.

The monthly cost of buying a house with a mortgage has more than doubled under Biden.

Now add 5 million people yearly, all competing for limited housing stock.

🚨 12,600+ illegal immigrants were encountered at the southern border over the past 24 hours — the highest single-day total EVER.

"The numbers just keep getting worse." pic.twitter.com/lA707k9dUX

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 19, 2023

If Biden wins the next election–God forbid–the total of illegal migrants entering the country could reach 30 million or more by the end of his eight years in office. It’s impossible to get your mind around that total because it dwarfs the increases that took place at the height of America’s immigration periods in the past.

That is not an exaggeration. The US already has hit a similar percentage of immigrant population as in 1890, the height of the biggest wave of immigration in our history.

Immigration has been good for the United States, but we have already hit too much of a good thing, and it will only worsen. Drinking enough water is good; too much and you drown.

We are drowning.