The historic and unprecedented immigration crisis, all captured in a single gigantic number:
The Biden Administration announced another record-setting month for migrant encounters along the U.S.-Mexico border. The report of nearly 252,000 migrant encounters came in a Friday-night after-hours news dump. This represents the largest single-month report in U.S. history.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released the December Southwest Land Border Encounters Report early Friday evening. The report revealed that U.S. Border Patrol agents and CBP officers encountered 251,487 migrants in the month of December 2022.
That number is truly staggering. But seeing it in the context of the year-over-year increase is even more so:
But don't worry, y'all, Biden is totally addressing this issue and taking charge and taking responsibility:
