Important Takeaways:

• Border encounters reach nearly 2.5 million for 2023, second straight record-setting year for illegal immigration under Biden
• Official numbers totaled 269,735 encounters for September 2023, a new monthly record, which sets fiscal year 2023 at a record-setting 2,475,669.
• Previous reports that had estimated approximately 260,000 people crossing the border in September 2023 proved to be true. This exceeded the previous monthly record set under Biden in December 2022 at just over 250,000.
• At the time, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed the president had taken “historic action” to control illegal immigration, the Washington Examiner reported.
• Days later, the administration announced its plans to resume building the U.S.-Mexico border wall started under President Trump, despite Biden claiming that walls don’t work.
• According to the Washington Examiner, a total of 3.2 million non-U.S. citizens attempted to enter the country illegally in fiscal year 2023.

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