Washington, D.C. – Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) issued the following statement after the Biden regime released new data showing that an unprecedented 203,597 illegal aliens illegally crossed the southern border in August 2022.

“For the eighteenth straight month, an average of more than 150,000 illegal aliens crossed the southern border including a record 204,000 illegal aliens last month.  Joe Biden has welcomed and encouraged more than 4.4 million lawbreakers into our country since he took over in January 2021, including 66 individuals on the terrorist watch list.  This number does not include the nearly one million lawbreakers who were not apprehended.  In just two years, Biden has allowed in five times more illegal aliens than the entire population of the greater Tucson area.

Sadly, more than 2,200 pounds of deadly fentanyl and nearly 5,000 pounds of cocaine were seized by border officials in August.  Our southern border is a war zone and fentanyl is ravaging our communities yet Mr. Biden is doing absolutely nothing to stop this invasion.  He in fact, is encouraging it. The invasion needs to stop and it is going to take the states to do it since the Biden administration is assisting the drug cartels in smuggling the drugs and illegal aliens into our country.

Americans are fed up with Biden’s open border policies that are destroying our country,” concluded Congressman Gosar.

BACKGROUND:  Nearly all of the illegal aliens are released into the United States, and many may never appear at a hearing years from now.  Many illegal aliens lie, and are encouraged to lie, by claiming asylum.  Asylum requires government threats of torture or persecution.  It is a rare occurrence and very few of the central or South American illegal aliens have a credible claim for asylum.

In addition to letting in over two million illegal aliens this year, it is established that illegal aliens are likely imposing a net fiscal burden of at least $143.1 billion per year on U.S. taxpayers since 2010.