House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will lead a House delegation to the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time since taking up the gavel, meeting with U.S. border agents in Arizona.
Biden has seen monthly border encounters rise from 100,000 in February 2021 to over 250,000 in December 2022. CBP recorded more than 230,000 border encounters for the first time in October 2023, and each month since has surpassed that number.
That stat does not include the number of known"gotaways," or migrants who were detected by CBP 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. Biden visited the border for the first time in his presidency in early January, but many border agents argued it was too little, too late. The border crisis has drawn even staunch Democrats likeNYC Mayor Eric Adams has criticized President Biden's White House for failing to support cities shuddering under the influx of illegal migrants.CBP officials saw an estimated 718,000 border encounters in the first 100 days of fiscal year 2023, which began Oct. 1.
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