A House Judiciary Committee report released Thursday exposes the severe threat to national security of the Biden-Harris administration’s open-border policies - especially at the southwest border.
The report, “THE Biden-Harris Border Crisis: At Least 1.7 Million Potential National Security Threats,” is designed to highlight the dangerous policy failures the current administration wants to cover up:
“Despite the Biden-Harris Administration’s attempt to cover up the national security nightmare created by the open southwest border, the Committee’s and [immigration] Subcommittee’s oversight has revealed significant policy failures that make our country vulnerable to people and countries that seek to do us harm.”
Since January 2021, the open-borders policies of President Joe Biden and “border czar” Kamala Harris’ have allowed 7.6 million illegal aliens to enter the United States:
- Of those, one in four (at least 1.9 million) are known illegal alien “gotaways.”
- At least 382 are illegal aliens on the U.S. government’s terrorist watchlist who have been encountered by Border Patrol along the southwest border since January 2021.
- 99 of the more than 250 illegal aliens on the terrorist watchlist who were encountered by Border Patrol at the southwest border between fiscal years 2021 and 2023 have been released into U.S. communities.
- At least 34 others are in DHS custody, but haven’t been removed from the U.S.
- Under the Biden-Harris administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has encountered more than 1.7 million aliens from DHS’s “special interest” countries posing the greatest national security and counterintelligence threats to the U.S.
“Under President Joe Biden and border czar Vice President Kamala Harris, Border Patrol has encountered at the southwest border a record number of illegal aliens on the terrorist watchlist,” the report says. Special interest countries include Afghanistan, Cuba, Libya, Nigeria, Syria and Turkey.
Since Fiscal Year (FY) 2019, the number of “special interest” illegal aliens has skyrocketed - with at least 95% of those encountered at the southwest border each year:
- FY 2021: 98,565 total, 97% special interest 95,705
- FY 2022: 482,705 total, 96% special interest 465,664
- FY 2023: 597,058 total, 95% special interest 566,079
- FY 2024: 531,768 total 95% special interest 504,215 (through 9/19/24)
Read the House Judiciary Committee’s full report.