{"id":199686,"date":"2021-03-08T11:15:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T16:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=199686"},"modified":"2021-03-08T11:15:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T16:15:16","slug":"az-border-chief-says-illegal-immigration-on-track-to-top-past-three-years-combined-already-surpassed-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/az-border-chief-says-illegal-immigration-on-track-to-top-past-three-years-combined-already-surpassed-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"AZ Border Chief Says Illegal Immigration On Track To Top Past Three Years Combined: \u2018Already Surpassed\u2019 2018"},"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\">34<\/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%2Faz-border-chief-says-illegal-immigration-on-track-to-top-past-three-years-combined-already-surpassed-2018%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=199686&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/U.S.-Border-Patrol.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A U.S. Border Patrol official said that illegal immigration is on track this financial year to top the past three years combined.<\/p>\n<p>John Modlin, the interim chief in charge of the Border Patrol\u2019s Tucson sector, revealed how large the ongoing flood of illegal immigration has grown over the past several months. Modlin said that if the current pace continues unabated, illegal immigration will top all of 2018, 2019, and 2020 combined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo right now we\u2019re about a hundred percent over where we were this time, this last fiscal year. We\u2019ve already surpassed in the first four months of this fiscal year. We\u2019ve already surpassed all of 2018. If the flow continues at the rate it is here, by the end of this fiscal year, we will have surpassed \u201818, \u201819 and \u201820, all combined,\u201d Modlin <a href=\"http:\/\/fullmeasure.news\/news\/cover-story\/border-shift\">told<\/a> Sharyl Attkinson, host of \u201cFull Measure with Sharyl Attkinson.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Border agents have arrested nearly 300,000 illegal immigrants trying to enter the United States over the past four months alone. Modlin overseas border security over 262 miles of the U.S. southern border. He said the illegal immigrants agents catch in his sector are overwhelmingly single adults.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost 90% of the people that are apprehended in this sector, are single adults that try to avoid apprehensions,\u201d Modlin said.<\/p>\n<p>The growing crisis at the border has almost entirely been driven by President Joe Biden\u2019s border policy, which reflects a drastic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/border-official-warns-of-flood-of-unaccompanied-minors-families-coming-to-us-most-in-over-20-years\">shift<\/a> from the policies of former President Donald Trump, and even of former President Barack Obama. Biden has prioritized processing illegal immigrants and fast-tracking their release into the interior of the United States, whereas Trump aimed to deter illegal immigration through strict border policy and deportations. As Attkinson reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>All concerned blame the uptick on an expected reversal of get-tough policies put in place under President Trump. At the end of 2018, 2,000 immigrants a day were being intercepted at the Southern border prompting security concerns and a humanitarian crisis. In early 2019, the Trump administration invoked \u201cMigrant Protection Protocols\u201d forcing those seeking asylum to wait in Mexico. Then in 2020, \u201cTitle 42\u201d\u2014 an emergency health order \u2014 let border officials immediately turn back illegal immigrants because of Covid-19.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The moves had a dramatic impact. By May of 2020, 90% of illegal immigrants caught at the Southwest border were being expelled. And the number intercepted dropped from about a million in 2019, to roughly half that in 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In recent weeks, the Biden administration has struggled to address the growing border crisis. The president has reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-admin-allows-child-migrant-detention-centers-to-open-at-100-capacity-eyes-giving-them-new-name-reports\">moved<\/a> to open child detention centers at full capacity to handle the increasing flow of minors coming into the United States with families and unaccompanied. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) approved the move and scrapped past guidance that said such facilities could only be open at half capacity because of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s fellow Democratic politicians have begun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrats-sound-alarm-on-biden-immigration-plan-will-be-catastrophic-for-our-party-for-our-country\">warning<\/a> the president that the situation on the U.S. southern border is untenable and could have severe repercussions for the Democratic Party and the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, my concern at this in the recent weeks in my district, migrants who made it across the border, who even pass the line of MPPs [Migrant Protection Protocols], who were 5,000 folks that have been waiting for two years across the border, made it across the Rio Grande Valley were processed and released,\u201d Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) said last week. \u201cIf that is the message that we send to Central America and around the world, I can assure you, it won\u2019t be long before we have tens of thousands of people showing up to our border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019ll be catastrophic for our party, for our country, for my region, for my district, in the middle of a pandemic, in an area where we\u2019ve lost over 3,000 people in my small congressional district,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo, I think we need to have a better plan in place. I think asylum seekers should be able to ask for asylum and be processed in their home country or a neighboring country. And we shouldn\u2019t have a policy in place that impulses people to make this 2,000-mile trek where cartels and human traffickers are enriching themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Border Patrol official said that illegal immigration is on track this financial year to top the past three years combined. 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