Joe Biden pats himself on the back for drop in illegal border crossings and faces ferocious backlash on social media



Democratic President Joe Biden took credit for a report of decreased illegal immigration and faced fierce backlash on social media.

The post on X attributed to Biden claimed that "unlawful" border crossings had dropped by 60%. The Biden administration has been heavily criticized over lax border policies that led to a historic surge of illegal immigration. Some blame the results of the election on concerns over illegal alien crime.

'His apathy has ruined lives and left our nation open to attack from our adversaries.'

"Following the executive actions we took to secure our border, unlawful crossings have dropped over 60%. They’re lower than the last several months of the previous administration," read the Biden statement.

"Republicans in Congress wanted to play politics with the border. We fought to fix it," he added.

Many on social media saw the statement as an attempt to rewrite history and gloss over the failed policies of the Biden administration.

"Only the profoundly mentally disabled could possibly believe this horse s***," replied comedian Anthony Cumia.

"Biden waited until an election year before he even paid lip service to securing our border. The Biden era will forever be marked by the worst border crisis in US history. His apathy has ruined lives and left our nation open to attack from our adversaries," responded Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas).

"He waited 3.5 years to implement these policies, and only did so reluctantly because of pressure from the electorate to do something about the border crisis," said Chuck Ross of the Free Beacon.

"I don’t know which blue-haired lesbian intern at the whitehouse has the X login today, but it’s wayyyy too late to improve the legacy of the worst president in American history. Stop the lies," responded Pastor Ryan Visconti.

"There’s no amount of revisionist history that will make anyone believe @POTUS on border security. Truth is since February of 2021, well over 9 million people illegally crossed the southern border," replied Kent Strang of Americans for Prosperity.

Trump has promised to institute mass deportations to alleviate the crisis of illegal immigration.

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Biden may have to lift asylum crackdown on border after DHS report says crossings have plummeted



The Department of Homeland Security says that border crossings have plummeted so much that the Biden administration may have to lift a crackdown order.

President Joe Biden ordered that asylum applications would be shut off unless the applicant arrived through an official port of entry, but that order would end if immigrant apprehensions dropped below 1,500 on a daily basis.

Monthly illegal crossings soared to a historical high of nearly a quarter of a million in December 2023.

"The Departments have determined that the 1,500-encounter threshold is a reasonable proxy for when the border security and immigration system is no longer over capacity and the measures adopted in this rule are not necessary to deal with such circumstances," the regulation reads.

According to a CBS News review of internal DHS figures, the seven-day average of immigrant apprehensions between ports of entry has dropped to 1,650 and is likely to meet the cut-off point soon.

If Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas finds that the threshold has been reached, the crackdown order will end 14 days later.

However, one senior official from U.S. Customs and Border Protection told CBS that the agency didn't expect to reach the threshold.

"We're not in a place yet where we're a day ... or days away from being below 1,500," the official reportedly said.

Monthly illegal crossings soared to a historical high of nearly a quarter of a million in December 2023, but the latest figures from DHS say immigrant apprehensions are headed to registering about 60,000 this month.

Republicans have been beating up the Biden administration with story after story of illegal aliens committing heinous crimes in the country in order to criticize their lax border policies. Polls show that most Americans blame Democrats for the immigration crisis.

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