Staff Reports
The crisis at the southern border has exploded like a piñata at a birthday party! It seems like the number of migrants encountered by US Customs and Border Protection agents in December has skyrocketed to an astonishing 276,000, making it the highest number for a single month in the history of ever!
Record-setting 276K migrants crossed southern border in December — and it isn’t over https://t.co/qMveoKjfll pic.twitter.com/UFwyPw590z
— New York Post (@nypost) December 29, 2023
To put this mind-blowing statistic into perspective, this December’s figure has already blown past the previous record set in September, when 269,735 migrants were encountered. It’s like those numbers are playing a game of leapfrog, but with border data! And that’s not all, friends. The internal federal statistics have unleashed even more jaw-dropping news, revealing that 225,000 migrants were taken into custody at the border during the first 27 days of December.
The December tally doesn’t just stop at the mind-boggling number of encounters. It also includes a whopping 225,000 migrants taken into custody at the border during the first 27 days of December — also a record.
Officials are trying to wrangle an influx of up to 15,000 migrants from a massive caravan that’s headed our way.
There are 11,000 migrants huddled in camps in Mexico, waiting for their chance to hop, skip, and jump over to the Land of the Free. Plus, to add insult to injury, in the 2023 fiscal year, the southern border witnessed more migrant encounters than any other year since 1960.
The border officials are barely keeping their heads above water, facing an onslaught of asylum seekers with not even a lifeline in sight. And as if that weren’t enough to make your head spin, the mayors of New York, Chicago, and Denver are screaming for a federal declaration of emergency, financial support, and a national resettlement strategy.
In light of all this mayhem, Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to address this spiraling crisis. While the details of their meeting remain a bit fuzzy, both sides have pledged to do their darndest to reel in this chaotic situation.
