Texas Scorecard by Emily Wilkerson June 9, 2022
While President Biden continues to loosen border control, many Texans are paying the price.Under President Donald Trump, the country saw illegal immigration fall and border security increase by building the wall and implementing policies that would deter immigrants from crossing illegally.
However, when President Joe Biden was elected into office, he soon reversed Trump’s policies and halted the building of the border wall that aimed to ensure border security.
Now, illegal immigration on the southern border is pouring through, with no signs of stopping.
“United States Border Patrol had lost operational control of our southern border. They can’t contain what they have now,” former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Tom Homan said in a Fox News interview. “Under President Trump, we had the most secure border in my lifetime, and President Biden came into office and destroyed it, which is causing the crime, the murders, the overdose deaths, the drug trafficking, the trafficking of women and children.”
In late May 2022, Isnardo Garcia-Amado (who is on the terrorist watch list) was allowed into the U.S. It took 13 days for ICE to obtain authorization to rearrest him.
More:
https://texasscorecard.com/state/the-costs-of-texas-porous-southern-border/