Historic Migrant Wave
Swamps Main Street The crisis is spilling into America’s heartland, overwhelming cities and counties.
By David A. Pat ten
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION
T
he biden adminis- tration has launched a massive resettle- ment program to
divert attention from the true scope of the U.S. immigra- tion crisis, conservative think tanks and pundits charge. The mayors of New York
City, Chicago, and Washing- ton, D.C., have all declared states of emergency over the unbridled mi- grant influx. According to
U.S. Customs and Border Pro- tection (CBP), a record 2.76 million illegal aliens crossed the border in 2022.
UNPRECEDENTED The surge of illegal aliens, permitted by the Biden administration, is causing chaos, not just at the southern border but also thousands of miles away in communities across the country, where oficials lack the resources to cope with the wave of new arrivals.
flect reality. CBP officials contend the
a record
numbers are inflated because they include multiple appre- hensions of the same individu- als. But critics note the CBP statistics only reflect those ei- ther caught or apprehended. Many others
2.76 million illegal aliens crossed the
border in 2022. That’s an increase of more
than 1 million over the previ- ous all-time high, recorded just one year earlier in 2021 as over 1.7 million crossed il- legally into the United States. It’s difficult to say how ac- curately those statistics re-
— cartel drug figures and hu- man traffickers among them — slip across the border without being detected. And an increas-
ing number simply claim po- litical refugee status, fill out an application, and cross the border based on a promise to make a court appearance that is often scheduled more than a decade later. So far, most of the attention
has focused on how the mi- grant influx under President Joe Biden has impacted major metropolitan areas. But sud- denly that’s changing. In New York City, where of-
ficials are required by law to provide shelter to anyone who asks, city officials have called out the National Guard to help manage the influx. Local immigrant relief
agencies report being over- whelmed. Homeless shelters are over capacity. And city offi- cials have agreed to pay hotels hundreds of millions of dollars to keep undocumented work- ers off the streets. The New York Times re-
ports that more than 60,000 migrants have arrived on the city’s doorstep in the past year. Emergency shelters and migrant centers are currently caring for more than 37,500 of
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