THE BIDEN BORDER CRISIS: NEW DATA AND TESTIMONY SHOW HOW THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION OPENED THE SOUTHWEST BORDER AND ABANDONED INTERIOR ENFORCEMENT We do not need any more people in our country. - New data and information obtained by the Committee on the Judiciary and its Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement reveal that the Biden Administration has failed to remove, through immigration court removal proceedings, over 99 percent of those illegal aliens who have been released into the country under President Joe Biden. This information contradicts the assertions of the Administration, and the statements of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, that the southwest border is closed and illegal aliens are removed from the country quickly. - These new data reinforce widespread concern about the state of the border. More than two and a half years into President Biden’s term, his Administration’s border crisis continues unabated. Publicly available information shows that encounters of illegal aliens on the southwest border surpassed 100,000 for the 31st straight month and total southwest border illegal alien encounters exceeded 2.2 million in the first 11 months of fiscal year 2023.1 In August 2023, encounters of illegal aliens at the southwest border skyrocketed to 232,972,2 and the unreleased encounter numbers for September 2023 will reportedly shatter previous records, exceeding 260,000 encounters in a single month.3 Meanwhile, more than 1.7 million known “Got-Aways” have evaded Border Patrol and escaped into the interior since January 20, 2021, with untold numbers of unknown “Got-Aways” avoiding detection during that period. • Of the more than 5 million illegal alien encounters from January 20, 2021, through March 31, 2023, at least 2,464,424 illegal aliens had no confirmed departure from the United States as of March 31, 2023. • Of the illegal aliens encountered in those 26 months, DHS released at least 2,148,738 illegal aliens into the United States. • Between January 20, 2021, and March 31, 2023, the Biden Administration has removed from the United States only 5,993 illegal aliens who were encountered at the southwest border and who were placed in removal proceedings before an immigration judge during that time. 7 In other words, of the at least 2.1 million aliens released into the United States since January 20, 2021, the Biden Administration has failed to remove, through immigration court removal proceedings, roughly 99.7 percent of those illegal aliens. 8 • The Biden Administration’s total removals of illegal aliens encountered during that same period were just 4 percent of the number of aliens with no confirmed departure from the United States as of March 31, 2023. • These data contradict Secretary Mayorkas’s statements that the southwest border is closed and that illegal aliens are “quickly” removed. Instead, with more than 99 percent of illegal aliens staying inside the United States after being released by the Biden Administration, there is virtually no enforcement of our immigration laws. • Of the illegal aliens who Secretary Mayorkas claims are asylum seekers and who were released into the United States from January 20, 2021, through March 31, 2023, only six percent were screened for a fear of persecution. • Of the illegal aliens who were found to have a credible fear of persecution and whose asylum claims were adjudicated on the merits, DHS had removed only 874 of those aliens as of March 2023. • The Biden Administration has released into the country at least an additional 205,473 aliens through its illegal categorical parole programs. for more information; judiciary.house.gov/sites/ev…