White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated, “House Republicans, they have a choice to make. They have to choose whether they want to solve a problem, actually solve a problem like the Senate is trying to do in a bipartisan way. Or get in the way and score political points.”
Amidst the political wrangling, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed a record-breaking 302,024 total encounters at the U.S. southern border in December 2023.
The momentum of the surge has been growing since Biden took office and overturned all the Trump policies that had suppressed traffic on the border.
Mexican citizens accounted for 56,236 arrests in December, Venezuelans were second with 46,937.
Arrests of Guatemalans, Hondurans and Colombians also surged rounding out the top five nationalities.
