Prescott, AZ – Representative Paul Gosar, DDS (AZ-04) issued the following statement after the Biden administration released new data showing nearly 154,000 illegal aliens were apprehended crossing the southern border in January.

“A new year and Joe Biden’s open border polices have made the crisis along our southern border worse.  For the eleventh straight month, more than 150,000 lawbreakers were apprehended crossing our southern border. This is the worst January in twenty years.  Along with illegal aliens comes more crime and more deadly drugs, including over 830 pounds of fentanyl seized in January. All across the country, from Arizona, Texas to Washington, DC, violent crime caused by illegal immigrants is on the rise.

Yet again, Mr. Biden is nowhere to be found.  He’s more concerned with the border in Ukraine than our own damn border with Mexico.  Arizona should immediately deploy the National Guard and all necessary state law enforcement to seal the border, enforce the immigration laws and send these illegal alien criminals back,” concluded Congressman Gosar.