The population of migrants living within the US will surge to 8 million by the end of September — a dramatic 167% increase over five years driven by President Biden’s border crisis, according to government data.
At the end of fiscal year 2023 on Sept. 30, more than 6 million asylum seekers and other migrants were listed on what is known as the “non-detained docket” — a court docket that consists of cases involving noncitizens who have been temporarily released from ICE custody.
The Biden Administration anticipates that number will swell to 8 million by Oct. 1, according to Department of Homeland Security documents sent to Congress and obtained by Axios.
A quarter of the migrants caught in the backlog limbo — an estimated 2 million people — will include those slated for deportation and suspects facing criminal charges.
Others are waiting to receive final decisions on their asylum applications.
In 2019, when Donald Trump was still in the White House, the number of migrants in the immigrant court backlog stood at 3 million.
The exploding backlog includes migrants awaiting deportation, as well as those who have yet to receive final decisions on their asylum applications, but who are not detained.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has been on the front lines of dealing with the crisis, said in a “60 Minutes” interview on Sunday that Biden has lost control of the southern border — and the only solution is to elect a new president.
“It ends very simply, that’s with a president of the United States who will actually fulfill their oath of office to enforce the laws of the United States of America, that means denying illegal entry into the country,” he said.
Abbott, a Republican, warned that the US was in “imminent danger” from what he has been defiantly calling an “invasion” of “known and unknown terrorists who cross every day.”
Between December 1 and 31, more than 302,000 migrants attempted to enter the US illegally, Custom and Border Patrol sources told Fox News Digital.
This marks the highest ever number of migrant encounters for a single month — and the first time the total surpassed 300,000.
Last week, a federal judge blocked a new Texas law allowing state police to arrest illegal migrants from going into effect — ruling that it interferes with the federal government’s powers under the US Constitution to enforce immigration laws and the ability of migrants to apply for asylum.The judge, David A. Ezra, also rejected Texas’ claim that the surging number of migrants amounts to an “invasion.”
“Even accepting that some small number of immigrants do traffic drugs or have cartel affiliations, Texas cannot genuinely maintain that noncitizens crossing the border are an organized military force aimed at conquest or plunder,” Ezra’s ruling read.
Abbott responded to the decision by insisting that his state has the constitutional right to defend itself because of “President Biden’s ongoing failure to fulfill his duty.”
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