In this video, Patrick Bet-David highlights the severity of the ongoing migrant crisis at the US southern border. More illegal immigrants are crossing than ever before, threatening to overwhelm America’s infrastructure, welfare, education, housing, and healthcare systems. And we must ask, what will all these new arrivals do if AI goes on to eliminate as many low-paying jobs as experts are predicting?
Statistics
For the first time in American history, there are more (illegal) immigrants crossing into America than American babies being born, according to federal data gathered by Datahazard.
In the span of 60 years between 1892 and 1954, only twelve million immigrants passed into the US through the famed Ellis Island. Today, over a million immigrants come to the US per year.
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Starting in March 2022, US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) have seen four separate months breach 200,000 migrant encounters, a number never once seen before.
President Joe Biden is currently on track to be responsible for over 12 million encounters with illegal immigrants at the border during his first term alone.
Since he has taken office, Biden’s administration has seen 7.5 million encounters nationwide and 6.2 million encounters at the southwest border—in addition to 1.7 million gotaways. And those are just the ones that Border Patrol knows about.
Biden is allowing far more illegal immigrants to enter the country than President Barack Obama ever did, whose tough border policies earned him the title “Deporter-In-Chief.” And while illegal immigration is virtually welcomed, legal H1B visa registrants—specialty workers who would like to contribute their expertise and skills to the American economy—are capped at 85,000 per year despite the fact that hundreds of thousands are banging on the door every month.
In December, the state of Texas reported 12,600 migrant crossings in a single-day, a new record. One Arizonan rancher claims he has not seen a single border patrol agent on his sprawling property in three months.
The border patrol is apprehending people from countries all over Central and South America, as well as China and the Middle East—not just Mexico. Because the waves of men pouring over include individuals from war-torn countries where political extremism is rife, this rancher thinks it is highly probable that terrorists are hiding themselves amid the crowds.
And the data backs him up. According to federal records, 169 individuals whose names appear on the terrorist watchlist were stopped at the southern border in FY2023, and 18 were stopped in September alone.
Anecdotes and Consequences
An influx of people from developing countries at this rate does not come without consequences. Diseases long presumed to be extinct—like leprosy, tuberculosis, and syphilis—are surging at record pace in the West. Medical experts, though hesitant to admit it, are increasingly linking their reappearance with mass immigration.
There is the age-old trope, as seen in Scarface, that developing countries empty the inmates of their prisons and insane asylums and send them to the United States. But is that really a trope—or is it just plain truth?
These stories were collected by Homeland Security Republicans, a Congressional committee chaired by Rep. Mark Green (TN):
- “Reported by the New York Post on Sept. 2, Venezuelan immigrant Daniel Hernandez Martinez, who crossed the Southwest border illegally in July, has been arrested six times on 14 different charges since arriving in New York.”
- “An illegal immigrant from Peru was charged with murder in Eagle Pass, Texas on Sept. 19. He had initially crossed illegally into Eagle Pass in May and was released into the U.S. with a 2025 court date.”
- “On Sept. 6, Border Patrol agents patrolling near Fronton, Texas discovered backpacks with ammo and a homemade explosive in the same area where cartel gunman have been repeatedly seen on cameras crossing illegally into the U.S.”
- “On Sept. 13, and Sept. 15, mass street releases of aliens were conducted due to CBP facilities being overcapacity. CBP released 13,000 aliens in San Diego over the last month alone. On Sep. 14, CBP in Cochise County, Arizona announced their facilities were overcapacity and they were forced to begin releasing aliens into the community.”
- “On Sept. 19, the city of Eagle Pass issued an Emergency Declaration after around 4,000 aliens crossed into the city in the span of just four days.”
- “On Sep. 27, Eagle Pass Border Patrol released an internal memo stating no agents were in the field between ports of entry because many had been diverted to help process aliens into the interior.”
Solutions?
In response to all this chaos, the state of Texas has chosen to reject orders from the Biden administration and pursue their own immigrant enforcement agenda. The Biden White House has in turn threatened to sue them, but this threat did not work, as the Texas National Guard went ahead anyway with their plan to seize a large area from federal border patrol units just five days ago.
Meanwhile, as if determined to imitate the downfall of the Roman Empire, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) recently called for the recruitment of illegal immigrants into the US military, far before any cultural assimilation takes place.
Watch the rest of the video to learn more about the migrant crisis and how Patrick, as a child of immigrants, thinks about the issue.
Shane Devine is a writer covering politics, economics, and culture for Valuetainment. Follow Shane on X (Twitter).
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