Illegal Aliens Entering at Rate of 4.6 Million a Year

AP Photo/Eric Gay

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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John Sexton 7:00 PM | December 06, 2024
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