Growing Severity of Border Crisis Revealed in Judiciary Committee Report

Published on January 18, 2024

A new House Judiciary Committee report, which incorporates data not previously publicly disclosed, sheds fresh light on the intensifying crisis at the southern border. The new data reveals that the Biden administration, through immigration court removal proceedings, failed to remove around 99.7 percent of the 3.3 million illegal immigrants encountered and then released into U.S. communities. “Three years into the Biden administration, the crisis at the southwest border is worse than ever,” reads the report’s executive summary. It notes that from the day President Joe Biden was sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2021, until Sept. 30, 2023, there were nearly 6 million illegal immigrant encounters....