The Biden border crisis is dangerous to national security. That should go without saying but the president doesn’t see it as a problem. During the Trump years, fewer than 10 people on the terror watch list were arrested at the southern border. In 2022 under Biden, the number was 98. That number is likely to be even higher in 2023 because the number of apprehensions at the border continues to grow at historic levels.

The fiscal year 2023 began on October 1 and so far 38 people on the terror watch list have been apprehended. Terror organizations are seeking to take advantage of the Biden border crisis. They know the border is not secure. Drug cartels operate with impunity and are making millions and millions of dollars every month. The CBP recorded an estimated 718,000 border encounters in the first 100 days of the fiscal year 2023. Our luck cannot hold out forever.

The number of gotaways is reported to be 1.2 million since Biden became president. They are not included in the month-to-month numbers of apprehensions at the southern border.

U.S. border agents have confirmed that 1.2 million illegal migrants “got away” from authorities while crossing the border under President Biden’s administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sources told Fox News on Sunday.

CBP tracks hundreds of thousands of migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico Border every month, but that stat does not include the number of known “gotaways,” or migrants who were detected by authorities but not apprehended. Since Biden entered office in January 2021, border crossings have exploded, and at least 1.2 million migrants successfully evaded authorities.

Terror watchlist arrests at the southern border are surging under President Biden.

FY’23: 38 (so far)
FY’22: 98
FY’21: 15
FY’20: 3
FY’19: 0
FY’18: 6
FY’17: 2

Per CBP sources, there have been approximately 1.2 million *known* gotaways since Biden took office. @FoxNews

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) January 22, 2023

Some Democrats are slowly getting the message that the chaos at the southern border is a humanitarian crisis. Once Governor Abbott began to send migrant buses to sanctuary cities, suddenly it was a national crisis. NYC Mayor Adams, for example, visited El Paso and called upon Biden and Congress to act. With the border crisis becoming a bipartisan concern, even Biden visited El Paso this month. It was his first visit to the border since he first took elected office more than four decades ago. He didn’t see anything because he was in a sanitized El Paso but he made the trip because he knows it will be an issue if he decides to run for re-election.

Arizona farmers are warning that the traffic through their fields by illegal migrants is contaminating crops and threatening the nation’s food supply.

“There’s a food safety concern because our fields are monitored and audited and tested for different pathogens,” Alex Muller, president of the Pasquinelli Produce Company, told Fox News.

Muller’s farmland is right on the U.S.-Mexico border, and he has complained that the unfinished border wall begun under former President Donald Trump and canceled under Biden in 2021 has allowed a migrant influx that jeopardizes food safety.

“If there’s somebody that walks into our field and then we don’t know about why we put up flags and kind of mark it out and we don’t harvest that.”

“That hits the bottom line,” said Muller. “It’s not sustainable. It’s not good for the country.”

Migrant crossings at Yuma, Arizona have skyrocketed by 171% between 2021 and 2022. Many farmers have hired armed private security. Yuma is the largest agricultural producer of leafy green vegetables during the winter months. It provides about 90% of the nation’s supply o romaine and iceberg lettuce. Local farmers say they continue to lose crops while Biden allows the border to remain unsecured. Migrants trample the produce as they walk through the gaps in the unfinished border wall.

“We’ve gotten a fair amount of traffic through and around our fields and through the whole Yuma Valley,” local farmer Hank Auza told Fox News. He told reporters that his properties cover several thousand acres with fields near Morelos Dam, where there are major gaps in the wall.

“Where the gaps are opening up to more farm ground for them to walk across,” said Auza, “we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars just on our farm for food safety.”

Auza said that a neighboring farmer lost nearly $100,000 in crops after a handful of migrants hid and squatted on his land for a week.

“Now you start failing food safety audits, and there is no insurance in the produce business … so you eat that,” Auza added.

Muller made a plea to the Biden administration to close the gaps in the border wall and enforce stricter immigration policies to help the Border Patrol who are overwhelmed. The CBP announced on January 6 it would begin to finish construction to close the holes in the border wall in Yuma this month. Let’s hope they keep their word. American farmers deserve better for all they do to keep food on our tables.