The immigration influx under President Biden has reached unprecedented levels, marking the largest surge in U.S. history, as reported by The New York Times on Wednesday.
The Congressional Budget Office reported that the United States has experienced an average net migration of 2.4 million people annually from 2021 to 2023. This figure is calculated by subtracting the number of people who leave the country from those who enter. According to the Times, the total number of people migrating under Biden’s administration is likely to exceed 8 million.
The Times noted that the rate of arrivals between 2021 and 2023 stands as the highest recorded in U.S. history, representing the largest increase in nearly 175 years.
In recent years, U.S. political discourse has been dominated by debates over immigration and border security. President-elect Trump has made these issues central to his recent presidential campaign, while Republicans have consistently criticized the Biden administration’s approach to border management. Stephen Miller, Trump’s choice for deputy chief of staff for policy, recently reaffirmed that one of Trump’s primary objectives will be mass deportations.
Miller discussed the matter on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” where he revealed that the president-elect intends to “issue a series of executive orders that seal the border shut and begin the largest deportation operation in American history.”
On Monday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) emphasized that securing the border should be the first priority for the Senate Budget Committee in the next Congress.
“Stephen Miller was spot on when he said that the Senate and House should first pass a border security bill through the budget reconciliation process,” Graham wrote on the social media platform X.
“While I support spending restrictions and tax cuts, my top priority – and the first order of business in the Senate Budget Committee – is to secure a broken border,” said the incoming Budget Committee chairman. “The bill will be transformational, it will be paid for, and it will go first.”
{Matzav.com}