President Joe Biden, his administration, and the corporate media tried their best over the last two and a half years to downplay the record number of illegal border crossings, but a majority of Americans aren’t buying into the lie that the ongoing border crisis is improving.
A new poll from Pew Research found that 73 percent of Americans think the Biden administration is doing a bad job at handling the U.S.-Mexico border. For Republicans, the number rises to 87 percent. Even 62 percent of Democrats, whose party currently controls the White House and the Senate, say they disapprove of Biden’s border bungling.
Of the 5,115 U.S. adults surveyed, 94 percent of Americans think illegal border crossings are a problem for the country. Nearly half of Americans, 47 percent, classify illicit migration as a “very big” problem. That is up nearly 10 percent from last year’s survey, which found that 38 percent of Americans think the border chaos is a “very big” problem.
In May alone, 204,561 migrants were arrested attempting to illegally cross the U.S. Southern border. That number is slightly down from the month before, which saw 211,159 apprehensions, but is still higher than data recorded in 21 of the past 23 years. Excluding 2022, there haven’t been this many May arrests since Customs and Border Protection began recording apprehension data in 2000.
Law enforcement agencies are under explicit instructions from the Biden White House to avoid arresting illegal border crossers. Even those who are caught by border patrol will,
