Posted by Hannity Staff
Recently released drone footage is revealing the “out of control” situation taking place at the US-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas; showing thousands of Central American migrants waiting to be processed by Federal Agents before entering the United States.
The number of migrants crossing the United States border from Mexico continued to surge this summer, with new data from the Department of Homeland Security showing more than 200,000 encounters between immigrants and Federal Agents.
That’s up 317% compared to August 2020.
“The source told Fox that there were 208,887
encounters in August. While it marks the first decrease in migrant encounters
seen under the Biden administration, where migrant encounters have been sharply
rising for months, it is only a 2% drop over the more than 212,000 encounters
in July,” reports Fox
News.
“Additionally, the 208,887 number for August
represents a 317% increase over last August 2020 which saw 50,014 apprehensions
— and a 233% increase over August 2019, where there were 62,707 apprehensions
during that year’s border crisis,” adds Fox.
“We have a plan, we are executing our plan
and that takes time,” said DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas last month.
“A couple of days ago I was down in Mexico,
and I said look, you know, if, if our borders are the first line of defense,
we’re going to lose and this is unsustainable,” Mayorkas said. “We can’t
continue like this, our people in the field can’t continue and our system isn’t
built for it.”
