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Just In: New Numbers Shatter Kamala's Bogus 'Progress' Narrative on Border Crisis

Guy Benson
Guy Benson  |  September 15, 2023 1:05 PM

On Monday, we shared Vice President and absentee 'border czar' Kamala Harris' assessment that her administration's immigration policies are working, that "progress" is being made on the crisis -- despite "fluctuations," like we see in the weather, she said -- and that "root causes" are still of paramount concern.  This was abject nonsense, we argued, citing loads of evidence.  

The evidence has only grown since.  Consider the day-by-day statistics being shared by Fox's Bill Melugin, for instance:

I interviewed Melugin on my radio program on Wednesday, and he said that between illegal immigrant encounters, fake-quasi-'legal' parolees, and known got-aways, it's very plausible that more than 10,000 illegal immigrants entered the United States on several separate days during this week alone.  For context, New York's Democratic leadership is melting down over the arrival of roughly that number of migrants per month. Gov. Abbott should send more of them to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, etc. Democratic political discomfort and pain is literally the only factor that might forces changes from this administration, which is causing and effectively supports the crisis.  Speaking of Abbott, isn't it interesting that we haven't heard much, or any, performative media outrage and horror over this horrific death, because it can't be blamed on a Republican:

If the media can try to claim Abbott's enforcement efforts may have contributed to a drowning, we get solemn reports from journalists about the tragedy.  If not, it's just a statistic for them not to care about.  As you reflect on that, harken back to Vice President Harris' insulting "progress" report. The August border numbers aren't officially in yet, but they're shaping up to be very bad:

After the late spring blip, after which the administration did a victory lap, encounters spiked by 30 percent in back-to-back months, and now August will likely be north of 230,000 again -- back to disastrous levels.  And that figure doesn't include parolees or got-aways.  Adding those to the total, and the full number is in the ballpark of 300,000 or higher.  In a single month.  Once again, for reference, New York City is buckling under the pressure of 100,000 or so migrants, total.  What's happening as a result of this renewed deluge?  Renewed mass releases:

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Spencer recently highlighted the DHS Inspector General's admission that the department has lost track of nearly 200,000 illegal immigrants, but that number is a huge under-estimate:

The audit reviewed U.S. Border Patrol records for 981,671 illegal immigrants dated March 2021 to August 2022 and found "addresses for more than 177,000...were either missing, invalid for delivery, or not legitimate residential locations." ... The inability to locate illegal immigrants who have been apprehended and then released mean federal officials are likely to be unable to "arrest or remove individuals who are considered potential threats to national security," another alarming result of Biden's policies. 

Make no mistake, the real number is dramatically higher.  Millions of illegal immigrants have entered the US under this president, and the federal government has no earthly idea where vast numbers of them are.  They're losing track of tens of thousands of migrant kids they're supposed to be keeping tabs on, for crying out loud -- and punishing whistleblowers who tell the truth about it.  I'll leave you with a different illustration of Julio's point: 

Frauds.