Chaos: Illegal Border Crossers is Reaching an All-Time High

If ... Biden had set out to make the Arizona-Mexico border more dangerous for American citizens, he’s done a fine job...

Across the agency’s 262-mile Tucson Sector, from Douglas and Nogales, to Arivaca, Ajo and onto the Tohono O’odham Reservation, illegal crossers keep coming, lines of them wearing camouflage clothing and carpet booties to throw off trackers....

In fiscal 2021, Tucson Sector agents recorded 120,509 arrests, almost as many as the previous four years combined, according to agency statistics. So far in fiscal 2022, arrests are up 73 percent over that....

A growing number are not the desperately poor of popular belief. They dress in nice clothes and have newer iPhones than the agents who encounter them....

Border Patrol says the arrest recidivism rate has remained steady at around 35 percent since the 1990s.... Of those arrested in the Sector last year, 1,743 had prior criminal convictions in the U.S....

The smuggling gangs solicit drivers, many of them American teenagers from Maricopa County, on WhatsApp, Snapchat and Facebook. They’re paid $1,000 for every illegal they stuff into their car.... between 900-1000 cars a month come to Cochise County to make these runs....

The smugglers have scouts on the mountains on the south side and sophisticated communication networks on the north side to monitor every move by law enforcement....

“People think this is an Arizona problem or a Southwest problem,” Lamb says. “But it’s an American problem. It’s a major, major plague.”...

Here’s a second important lesson: The country sees the open border as an immigration issue. But it’s more about crime....

35 minute podcast: A Firsthand Look at the Arizona-Mexico Border, by Mark Krikorian and Leo Banks, Center for Immigration Studies, 17 March 2022. Worth listening to.

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