Common Sense, Volume VII: Immigration 3.0

Once again our illegal immigration has reached an all time new monthly high. According to the data released by Custom’s and Border Protection, September 2023 recorded the highest number of encounters. There were in excess of 260,000 encounters for the month. That represents 8,000 per day.

Fiscal year 2023 recorded more than 2.8 million for the year. That averages out to 7,500 per day…that’s every day of the week.

With that in mind, the total number of immigrants that have crossed the border since this administration has taken office is over 3.8 million. In addition to the 3.8 million that were encountered, there is an estimated 1.5 million that got away.

It doesn’t take much common sense to know that the United States cannot begin to process, let alone protect its citizens with immigration rates that high.

We have to ask ourselves, what were we thinking? The total number of immigrants that have been released into the United States is greater than the individual population of 24 of our states.

Besides the drugs, human trafficking, we have bolstered the net worth of the cartels to the point that they are now financially stronger than some countries. This simply means that they have the resources to influence politicians, governments and judges. Additionally, we now have allowed anyone to get into our country without knowing who they are and what they want.

Now that we are engaged in Ukraine, and the Middle East our focus has turned away from protecting our border, in fact it has been disappointing since this administration has taken office.

Please let congress know that you are concerned. It is only a matter of time.

God Bless America!

Richard Geisinger

This is commentary from our members, it is not the official position of the Martin County Republican Executive Committee.