Yuma, AZ— Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-09), issued the following statement in response to the U.S Customs and Border Patrol announcement that 269,735 illegal aliens illegally crossed the southern border in September:

“The Biden Regime shamefully announced over the weekend that nearly 270,000 illegal aliens violated U.S. sovereignty and crossed the southern border last month, shattering any previous month for illegal aliens ever recorded.  This is not a record to be proud of.  It’s unconscionable.

In addition, 169 terrorists already on the terrorist watch list, including another 18 in September, have crossed the southern border in the last year. That’s more terrorists in one year than the previous six years combined.  By way of comparison, just 11 terrorist suspects were caught at the southern border during the entire Trump presidency.  Terrorists are emboldened because of the feeble Biden administration.

Because of Biden’s reckless open border policies, now nearly nine million illegal aliens have invaded our country since Biden took office.  That’s on top of the existing 30 million illegal aliens that already lived here and have yet to be deported.

It gets worse:  more than 27,000 tons of fentanyl have crossed the southern border in the past year.  To put that into perspective, that is enough to kill the entire world population nearly one and a quarter times.  Over 200,000 Americans have been murdered by fentanyl poisoning since 2021.

Rather than wasting taxpayer money protecting Ukraine’s borders and supporting a Nazi authoritarian regime there, and rather than sending hundreds of millions more of our tax dollars to terrorists in Gaza, we should be protecting our own people and our own damn borders from Biden’s corrupt, incompetent and disgraceful administration,” concluded Congressman Gosar.

Background:

House Republicans passed the Secure the Border Act, which is the strongest border security package in American history.

FACTS ABOUT THE SECURE THE BORDER ACT OF 2023:

• Force the Biden Administration to restart construction of the border wall.
• Deploy technology to the Southern and Northern border.
• Increase the number of Border Patrol agents and provide bonus pay.
• Require transparency regarding illegal crossings from the Department of Homeland Security.
• Strengthen current law to protect unaccompanied children from human trafficking.
• End catch and release.
• End abuse of executive immigration authority.
• Strengthen and streamline the asylum process.