Chairman Green on July Border Numbers: Biden and Harris “Orchestrating a Massive Shell Game” With Border Crossings

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) released the following statement after the release of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) border encounter numbers for July 2024. Nationwide encounters under President Joe Biden and his "border czar" Kamala Harris have now officially surpassed 10 million, along with roughly two million known gotaways:
"Despite the false narrative they're attempting to project, the unprecedented border crisis the president and his 'border czar' have created continues to rage on. This administration is orchestrating a massive shell game, encouraging otherwise-inadmissible aliens to cross at ports of entry instead of between them-thereby creating a façade of improved optics for the administration, but in reality imposing a growing burden on our communities. Total encounters at our ports-land, sea, and air-are up exponentially this fiscal year compared to the Biden-Harris administration's first year in office, and are on track to surpass last year's total. Since January 2023, more than 1.28 million inadmissible aliens have been granted entry to our country at official ports of entry through just the CBP One and CHNV mass-parole programs Biden and Harris created. And now the CHNV program has been halted due to massive fraud.

"Even if another illegal alien did not cross our Southwest border for the remainder of Biden-Harris' term, the millions they have already allowed into our country have done damage that will take decades to remedy. And for the families of Americans like Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, and Jocelyn Nungaray, that damage will never be undone."

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