(Texas Scorecard) – U.S. Rep. Chip Roy has released a document titled “America Invaded” that details the continuing damage the Biden-Harris border invasion is having on the United States.
“My team compiled a summary of the Border Invasion perpetrated against the American people by the Harris-Biden regime – and it’s just the tip of the iceberg,” Roy wrote on X. “Our country is being torn apart – from dangerous fentanyl to lawless criminals, from known terrorists to death and abuse of migrants, from massive financial costs to fundamental re-making of American society including non-citizen voters.”
The report states that since President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris assumed office in January 2021, more than 8.5 million illegal aliens have crossed the southern border—which is greater than the population of 37 U.S. states. Furthermore, U.S. Customs and Border Protection encounters have nearly quadrupled on average per month since the Trump administration.
In addition to the millions who have crossed the border, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has released more than 5.6 million illegal aliens, with at least one million being admitted through parole programs.
Another 1.9 million illegal aliens, known as “gotaways,” have entered the country—going completely undetected by Border Patrol agents. In total, at least 7.5 million illegal aliens who have crossed the southern border have either been purposefully released or evaded capture since Biden and Harris took office.
As a result of the millions of illegal aliens infiltrating the U.S., nearly 75,000 Americans have been killed due to fentanyl poisonings in 2023—an average of 200 deaths per day. In Fiscal Year 2021, 11,200 pounds of fentanyl were seized by Border Patrol agents. Since then, the number has skyrocketed to more than 26,700 in FY 2023—enough to kill every American 18 times.
The Biden-Harris border crisis has also seen increased levels of crime and apprehensions of illegal alien criminals, gang members, and terrorists. In FY 2021, Border Patrol agents encountered more than 10,700 illegal aliens with criminal convictions. In FY 2022, 12,028 criminal illegal aliens arrests were carried out, and in FY 2023, Border Patrol agents apprehended 15,267 criminal aliens. With only two months left in FY 2024, there have already been 14,697 arrests.
For example, illegal aliens who have been let in have been arrested for horrific criminal acts. In Texas, 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was lured under a bridge in Houston, stripped of her clothes below the waist, and assaulted for nearly two hours before two illegal aliens allegedly dumped her lifeless body in a bayou.
Another result of the crisis involves states and local governments being forced to use taxpayer funds to assist with the impact of the mass influx of illegal aliens on border communities.
At one point in Eagle Pass, up to 5,000 illegal aliens were crossing the southern border a day, many of whom needed medical attention due to the dangerous trek. The Eagle Pass Fire Department had assigned one out of five of its full-time ambulances to transport injured illegal aliens to hospitals, stretching city resources. Additionally, Eagle Pass FD is spending around $21,000 daily—more than $2.2 million since mid-September 2023.
Due to the Biden-Harris administration’s failure to protect border communities, Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas Department of Public Safety launched Operation Lone Star. To date, OLS and other related measures used to curb illegal immigration have cost Texas taxpayers around $13 billion since March 2021. In total, the operation has apprehended more than 513,000 illegal aliens, carried out more than 44,000 criminal arrests, and seized over 489 million lethal doses of fentanyl.
Roy concludes that it’s time to secure the border and fight to make America safe again.
“We cannot shrug our shoulders and hope the next presidential administration, or a miracle will end the border crisis and its impacts. We have countless examples of this crisis harming our constituents in different ways to motivate us to secure the border once and for all. Now is the time to fight. Now is the time to do what we said we were going to do in Congress: secure the border and take back our country,” wrote Roy.