Under the Biden-Harris and Obrador administrations, there are nearly 3 million illegal Mexican border crossers

Is equal to the third largest city in the US, with more than 15 US state residents…

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By Bethany Blankley (The central square (contributor) –

Under the Biden-Harris and Obrador administrations, the number of Mexican nationals who have entered or are attempting to enter the U.S. illegally has reportedly reached nearly 3 million.

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the number nationwide is 2,826,457. facts.

The majority, 2,761,454, were apprehended or encountered at the southwestern border, followed by 42,974 people in other areas of the country and 22,029 at the northern border.

They are in total more than the individual populations of 15 U.S. states. Together they would be the 36th largest U.S. state, behind Mississippi’s estimated population of 2.9 million and ahead of New Mexico’s 2.1 million. They would be the third most populous city ​​in America, after New York City and Los Angeles, more than Chicago’s 2.6 million inhabitants and Houston’s 2.3 million.

The data excludes excursionsthose who entered illegally and evaded capture. Federal encounters and arrests occur nationwide wherever CBP agents are stationed, including in every U.S. state, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

Mexican nationals have historically been restricted from entering without lawful authorization and have been removed under Title 8 of the U.S. immigration law under every presidential administration, according to CBP data. Under policy changes enacted in January 2021 when President Joe Biden took office, foreigners deemed inadmissible under federal law were allowed to enter and remain in the U.S., The Center Square reported. Multiple states have filed suit, including Texas and Florida, arguing that the policy is illegal and harms Americans.

Under Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Biden, the largest volume of fentanyl and its precursors has been smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico, U.S. authorities have reported. Federal, state and local authorities have seized enough fentanyl to kill billions of people since fiscal year 2021, The Center Square reported.

Several congressional reports have revealed that Mexican cartels are facilitating the U.S. illicit fentanyl crisis by collaborating with the Chinese Communist Party to wage an unconventional war against the U.S., The Center Square reported. reported.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has argued that both the Obrador and Biden administrations have a “Mexico first” policy. Congress has failed to hold the Biden and Obrador administrations accountable for the fentanyl and border crises, critics argue.

Obrador has argued that the U.S. “drug problem” is not Mexico’s problem. “We are not going to act as policemen for a foreign government. Mexico first. Our homeland comes first,” Obrador said earlier this year, The Associated Press reported. He has also claimed that crime in Mexico is decreasing and that it is no longer a problem.

Multiple news reports refute these claims, noting that lime growers are reportedly paying protection fees to drug cartels and “receiving threats at levels not seen since 2013.” Mexico’s government statistics agency is reportedly paying gangs to enter cities to conduct census work. Cartel violence has also increased to levels that Mexico “has not seen since the darkest days of the 2006-2012 drug war,” The Associated Press reported.

Several news sources also report that police officers and Mexican soldiers have been targeted by drug cartels, who are using cars, roadside bombs and drones to deliver bombs.

Obrador has also demanded that Mexico is receiving U.S. funds to advance a Biden-Harris “legal pathways” policy, which would allow foreign nationals into the U.S. more quickly, rather than deporting them after they enter the U.S. illegally through Mexico. He also urged Americans not to vote for Republican governors Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas because of their commitment to border security, The Center Square reported.

Despite Obrador’s claims, “Mexico is facing a crisis of kidnappings, disappearances, and other criminal violence that has left more than 30,000 dead each year since 2018 … largely committed by gangs and drug cartels,” according to the Council on Foreign Relations’ Global Conflict Tracker. “Cartel drugs are also flowing across the border, fueling an epidemic of drug overdoses in the United States,” it said, echoing claims made by federal, state, and local law enforcement in the U.S.

Since Obrador took office in 2018, “gangs tied to Mexico’s two largest drug cartels — which fight to the death for market share — have grown in number and influence,” the Wall Street Journal reported.

In June, Obrador’s protégé, far-left “climate scientist” Claudia Sheinbaum of the ruling Morena party, was elected Mexico’s next president. Her term begins on October 1. The former mayor of Mexico City has vowed to continue many of his policies.

She was elected after 30 local candidates were killed in what has been described as cartel-orchestrated violence that ravaged the country, The Center Square reported.

An international coalition led by the Texas Public Policy Foundation has called on US policymakers in Washington DC to change US policy toward Mexico, away from the violence of Mexican cartels and Obrador’s policies, which they claim are harming and killing Americans.

“The old policy consensus that underpinned NAFTA, USMCA, and a generation of cooperative and friendly U.S.-Mexico relations has collapsed. The Mexican government is not an ally of the United States and can no longer be described as a partner,” The Conservative U.S.-Mexico Policy Coalition argues.

About the author: Bethany Blankley is a writer at Center Square, Patheos/Hedgerow, a political analyst, and former Press Secretary at Capitol Hill/NY/WDC. Follow Bethany on Twitter@BethanyBlankley.