Report: Border crisis ‘damage that will take decades to repair’ By Shirleen Guerra |

A sweeping new report from a U.S. House committee accuses the Biden administration of “the worst border crisis in American history.”

Crisis By Design, as the Republican majority on the House Homeland Security Committee calls it, describes how the administration has addressed the crisis at the southern border since the 2020 election.

“Even if not a single inadmissible alien were to cross our borders for the remainder of Biden and Harris’s term, the millions they have already allowed into our country have done damage that will take decades to repair,” said House Committee Chairman Dr. Mark Green, R-Tenn.

According to the report, there have been 8.2 million border crossings at the southwest border since February 2021. Other borders and ports of entry bring the total number of border crossings to 10.1 million, the report said. By the end of the Biden administration, the report estimates there will be an estimated 11.6 million encounters nationwide.

This is a 274% increase from the 3.1 million encounters from 2017-20, the report said. The figures do not include the 2 million encounters known as “gotaways”.

The Center Square has reported that actual illegal border crossings now exceed 12.5 million under the Biden administration. The Center Square includes “gotaway” data, which are illegal border crossers who successfully enter the U.S. between ports of entry and are not apprehended. U.S. Customs and Border Protection does not make “gotaway” data public; The Center Square obtains the data from a Border Patrol agent in the field.

“At the same time, transnational criminal organizations such as Mexico’s criminal cartels and violent gangs have been enriched and empowered by record profits from drug trafficking and human trafficking,” the report said. “They are funneling these blood-bought dollars into their ever-expanding operations in U.S. cities and across the hemisphere.”

Many Border Patrol agents have been pulled from the border and are no longer enforcing U.S. immigration laws, instead processing and releasing people who cross the border, in line with Biden’s policies, the report said.

The report says the human cost to both Americans and migrants is incalculable, as fentanyl and humans continue to be smuggled across the border, killing thousands.