The Republican National Committee (RNC) has released part one of a video series, which Breitbart News obtained a first look at, hitting President Joe Biden for record illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border where more than two million border crossers and illegal aliens were encountered in 2021.
The RNC’s video series, “Unchecked,” sheds light on the “human cost” of the Biden administration’s record-setting rate of illegal immigration to the U.S.
In 2021, more than two million border crossers and illegal aliens arrived at the porous southern border — a foreign population larger than the resident population of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
This year, experts predict more than 2.1 million will arrive and the Biden administration is bracing for a record influx of hundreds of thousands in a single month if they decide to lift the public health authority known as Title 42 which has given federal immigration officials broad authority to quickly remove border crossers to their native countries.
File/Immigrant men from many countries are taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents at the U.S.-Mexico border on December 07, 2021 in Yuma, Arizona. Most had come with their families through a nearby gap in the border wall to seek political asylum. (John Moore/Getty)
The series features conversations with those who have spent time at the border, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Ron Vitiello, and journalist Julio Rosas.
“We are seeing a human rights catastrophe, we are seeing a public health catastrophe, we are seeing a crime and national security catastrophe,” Cruz said. “I’ve asked the Senate Democrats to Texas and see the border. Not one of them is willing to do it. They are literally turning a blind eye, and they are counting on the corporate media to cover it up.”
This comes as the Biden administration saw the worst February at the border in 22 years. It was announced that 164,973 illegal aliens were apprehended last month — not including those border crossers and illegal aliens who successfully entered the U.S., undetected by Border Patrol.
“These are people. These are real people there, right,” Gonzales said. “So the migrants that are jumping off of trains and getting hurt — in some cases losing arms and limbs, that’s part of the two million. Every part of America has been impacted. You’ve got migrants going to every corner of the country.”
Indeed, the Biden administration has implemented a rigorous Catch and Release policy that includes busing and flying border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior to states like Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas, Connecticut, and New York, among others.
From January 2021 to August 2021, for example, more than half a million were released into the U.S. interior. In January of this year, more than 62,500 border crossers and illegal aliens were released into the U.S. interior — a foreign population more than more than six times the size of Jackson, Wyoming.
“We’ve never seen a number that big. We’ve never seen two million encounters within a year’s time. It’s just never happened,” Vitiello said. “The people that live just north of the border – they see the human trafficking, they see the exploitation, they see the smuggling, and so [Americans] are most affected by it day-to-day.”
File/Immigrants walk towards a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint after they crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico on August 14, 2021 in Roma, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images)
“Oftentimes, when we see the rest of the media catch up with border coverage, it’s when there’s a sudden influx at one point,” Rosas said. “Which, okay that’s good, but that influx is happening at all different points, at all different parts every single day.”
With the RNC’s release of part one, Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel told Breitbart News the answer is “Plain and simple. Joe Biden is the root cause of the pain and suffering on the border.”
“Biden and ‘border czar’ Kamala Harris’ failures have put our law enforcement officials in harm’s way, leaving them to defend an open border with drugs, human trafficking, and crime surging,” McDaniel said. “Every community is a border community under Biden, as drugs and crime move across the country.”
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