President Joe Biden’s administration blamed Republicans for a historically bad month of illegal immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border last month, despite Democrats controlling the entire federal government and both chambers of Congress up until a few weeks ago.
The administration broke the all-time record for the number of illegal aliens encountered on the U.S.-Mexico border last month, according to newly released numbers by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) late Friday evening.
Federal officials had 251,487 encounters with illegal aliens last month on the southern border, the highest number ever recorded in U.S. history.
Last month’s numbers, combined with the first two months of fiscal year 2023 — October and November — put the U.S. on track to have more than 2.87 million illegal alien encounters on the U.S. southern border this year.
“Of course the numbers will be higher when Republican elected officials, like smugglers, falsely proclaim the border is open because…
