{"id":1770681,"date":"2022-12-09T11:16:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770681"},"modified":"2022-12-09T12:34:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:34:11","slug":"the-border-is-less-secure-than-ever-under-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-border-is-less-secure-than-ever-under-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"The Border Is Less Secure Than Ever Under Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-border-is-less-secure-than-ever-under-biden%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770681&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span>By James D. Agresti<\/span><br \/><span>December 9, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/migrants_rio_grande_border_patrol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"no-padding wp-image-10732 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/migrants_rio_grande_border_patrol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/migrants_rio_grande_border_patrol.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/migrants_rio_grande_border_patrol-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/migrants_rio_grande_border_patrol-1024x539.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/migrants_rio_grande_border_patrol-768x404.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/migrants_rio_grande_border_patrol-640x337.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/migrants_rio_grande_border_patrol-390x205.jpg 390w\"     style=\"display:none\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: U.S. Customs and Border Protection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c5041590\/user-clip-bishop-questions-s1-fbi-nctc\">recent hearing<\/a> of the House Homeland Security Committee, Congressman Dan Bishop (R\u2013NC) <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v1uqb4w-mayorkas-continues-to-deceive-claims-the-border-is-secure.html\">asked<\/a> Homeland Security Director Alejandro Mayorkas, \u201cDo you continue to maintain that the border is secure?\u201d Mayorkas replied, \u201cYes, and we are working day in and day out to enhance its security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contradicting that claim, objective measures show that the border is less secure than ever, and the situation is putting many thousands of lives at risk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cGot Aways\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/6\/223\">Federal law<\/a> requires the Department of Homeland Security to report specific \u201cmetrics\u201d to \u201cmeasure the effectiveness\u201d of border security. One of the most telling of these is \u201cgot aways,\u201d or illegal border crossers who the U.S. Border Patrol <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/17_0914_estimates-of-border-security.pdf#page=6\">detects but does not catch<\/a>. In other words, these are people who evade border security by luck or shrewdness.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to gotaways, there are countless numbers of undetected entries, or people who cross the border without Border Patrol\u2019s knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government typically reports border security data for each <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/31\/1102\">federal fiscal year<\/a>, which begins and ends three months before the calendar year. The Biden administration has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/border-crossing-deaths-skyrocket-while-biden-administration-hides-the-data\">hiding such data<\/a>, but federal employees have leaked it to the press.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to Mayorkas\u2014who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/about-the-white-house\/our-government\/the-executive-branch\/\">appointed by and serves<\/a> at the behest of President Biden\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/immigration#illegal_border\">gotaways have soared<\/a> during Biden\u2019s tenure, reaching a record high of 599,000 in 2022. This is 4.7 times the average of 127,000 gotaways per year from before the Biden administration to as far back as data extends:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/got_aways_2014-2022.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/got_aways_2014-2022.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"978\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/got_aways_2014-2022.png 978w, https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/got_aways_2014-2022-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/got_aways_2014-2022-768x557.png 768w, https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/got_aways_2014-2022-640x464.png 640w\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The danger of gotaways is that they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/immigration#crime\">avoid all<\/a> criminal background checks and safety screenings that visitors and migrants to the U.S. typically undergo. The full implications of this are impossible to determine because most serious violent crimes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/guncontrol#crime_justice\">don\u2019t result<\/a> in arrests. However, the available facts show the consequences are substantial and lethal.<\/p>\n<p>Providing an inkling for the scale of the carnage, the U.S. Government Accountability Office published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/700\/693162.pdf\">study<\/a> in 2018 of non-citizens in U.S. prisons and jails during 2010\u20132016. This study:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/immigration#crime_general\">revealed<\/a> that these non-citizens had been arrested\/transferred for the following crimes committed in the U.S. during 1964\u20132017:\n<ul>\n<li>505,400 assaults.<\/li>\n<li>133,800 sex offenses.<\/li>\n<li>33,300 homicides.<\/li>\n<li>24,200 kidnappings.<\/li>\n<li>1,500 acts of terrorism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/gao-18-433.pdf#page=3\">double-counted<\/a> some crimes because the \u201cdata did not allow\u201d the study to \u201cdistinguish between a new arrest and a transfer from one agency to another.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/gao-18-433.pdf#page=15\">did not count<\/a> some crimes because there \u201care no reliable population data on all criminal aliens in every U.S. state prison and local jail.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Again, those figures only include crimes committed by non-citizens who were arrested and were actively serving time in 2010\u20132016. This is only the tip of the iceberg because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the federal government deports an average of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/immigration#crime_general\">more than 100,000<\/a> non-citizens per year who were convicted of committing crimes in the United States.<\/li>\n<li>the Department of Homeland Security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/xlibrary\/assets\/mgmt\/dhs-congressional-budget-justification-fy2013.pdf#page=1092\">estimated<\/a> in 2010 that about \u201c550,000 criminal aliens convicted of crimes exit law enforcement custody every year.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>only one person is arrested for every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/guncontrol#crime_justice\">2.6 aggravated assaults<\/a> committed in the United States.<\/li>\n<li>the portion of murders in which a suspect is identified and acted upon by the criminal justice system is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/guncontrol#crime_justice\">only 54%<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>murders committed by racial and ethnic minorities are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/racialissues#violence_unsolved\">less likely to be solved<\/a> than other murders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/immigration#crime\">government data<\/a> on crimes committed by immigrants, the study grouped all non-citizens into a single category, including those who entered the U.S. illegally and legally. This means that not all of them jumped the border, but the vast bulk of them did because people who enter the U.S. legally are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/immigration#crime\">screened for criminality<\/a>. Thus, they commit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/immigration#crime_general\">imprisonable crimes<\/a> at far lower rates than the general public.<\/p>\n<p>On top of the violence directly perpetrated by gotaways, they kill thousands of other people every year by smuggling deadly drugs into the United States. Mexican cartels are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/jmd\/page\/file\/1398361\/download#page=5\">primary source<\/a> of illicit drugs in the U.S., including fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/immigration#crime_drugs\">Such drugs<\/a> caused about 83,034 accidental overdose deaths in the U.S. during 2021 alone.<\/p>\n<p>A porous border also rewards cartels with profits from drug smuggling and human trafficking. They then use this money to buy weapons and corrupt public officials, causing widespread <a href=\"https:\/\/crsreports.congress.gov\/product\/pdf\/R\/R41576\/41\">death and suffering<\/a> in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apprehensions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although estimates of gotaways only extend back to 2014, the government publishes data on border apprehensions dating to 1960. This provides a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-06\/2022_0427_plcy_border_security_metrics_report_FY2021_%282020_data%29.pdf#page=7\">rough approximation<\/a> for the relative scale of illegal entries over time. Per the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/17_0914_estimates-of-border-security.pdf#page=3\">Office of Immigration Statistics<\/a>, the \u201ccount of migrant apprehensions serves as a long-standing proxy measure of illegal flows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like gotaways, border apprehensions have reached unprecedented levels under Biden:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/southwest_border_apprehensions_1960-2022.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/southwest_border_apprehensions_1960-2022.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/southwest_border_apprehensions_1960-2022.png 980w, https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/southwest_border_apprehensions_1960-2022-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/southwest_border_apprehensions_1960-2022-768x556.png 768w, https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/southwest_border_apprehensions_1960-2022-640x464.png 640w\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the Biden administration has let <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/06\/us\/politics\/asylum-biden-administration.html\">more than a million<\/a> of these border crossers into the United States after they were apprehended. Such individuals are commonly admitted because they make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/immigration#illegal_asylum\">meritless claims<\/a> of asylum, but they never leave the U.S. because deportation laws are rarely enforced. This was the explicit policy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/immigration#illegal_obama\">Obama<\/a> and is also true under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/immigration#illegal_biden\">Biden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, all border crossers immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/immigration#economic_welfare\">become eligible<\/a> for a host of government benefits funded by U.S. taxpayers, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>free emergency room visits and childbirths in hospitals.<\/li>\n<li>annual cash payments for each child they have.<\/li>\n<li>free childcare and preschool programs.<\/li>\n<li>free job training, clinic-based healthcare, emergency rent assistance, and emergency food assistance.<\/li>\n<li>free public education and school meals.<\/li>\n<li>full citizenship to any children they give birth to in the U.S., entitling them to all federal welfare benefits, such as food stamps, housing, home energy, and health insurance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Border Crossing Deaths<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another lethal fallout of an insecure border is the hundreds of people who die each year while trying to illegally cross it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/immigration#illegal_border\">These deaths<\/a> have skyrocketed under Biden, growing from 247 in the last fiscal year of Trump\u2019s presidency to 856 deaths in 2022:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/us_mexico_illegal_border_crossing_deaths_1998-2022.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/us_mexico_illegal_border_crossing_deaths_1998-2022.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"977\" height=\"712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/us_mexico_illegal_border_crossing_deaths_1998-2022.png 977w, https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/us_mexico_illegal_border_crossing_deaths_1998-2022-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/us_mexico_illegal_border_crossing_deaths_1998-2022-768x560.png 768w, https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/us_mexico_illegal_border_crossing_deaths_1998-2022-640x466.png 640w\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is another case where the Biden administration is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/border-crossing-deaths-skyrocket-while-biden-administration-hides-the-data\">hiding the data<\/a> but federal employees have leaked it to media outlets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During a recent trip to Arizona, reporter Peter Doocy of Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v1z7kem-this-is-how-biden-feels-about-the-border-crisis.html\">asked<\/a> President Biden, \u201cWhy go to a border state and not visit the border?\u201d Biden replied, \u201cBecause there\u2019s more important things going on. They\u2019re going to invest billions of dollars in a new enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given the far-reaching lethal consequences of the border situation, Biden\u2019s answer reveals a staggering level of ignorance, apathy, and\/or malice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James D. 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