The Biden administration’s open border policies allowed in a record net of 8.3 million migrants, nearly two-thirds illegally, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census data detailing the Democrat’s disaster.
About 5.4 million migrants crossed into the U.S. illegally over the past four years, making former President Joe Biden the record-holder for the worst border enforcement ever.
He and his administration let in so many illegal immigrants, according to a new Center for Immigration Studies review, that it blew up the long-held Census pattern and projection for immigration.
“America has entered uncharted territory on immigration, with significant implications for taxpayers, the labor market, and our ability to assimilate so many people,” per the report.
“At 53.3 million and 15.8% of the population, the foreign-born population is higher now than at any time in American history,” CIS said.
“The scale of recent immigration is so high it has made the Census Bureau population projections …nearly obsolete. The Bureau projected that the foreign-born share would not reach 15.8% of the U.S. population until 2042,” it added.
Biden’s failure at the border actually let in 11.5 to 12.5 million migrants overall, but when deaths and self-deportations were accounted for, the estimate fell to a net of 8.3 million, CIS said.
From his first day in office, Biden dismantled the border-closing successes made in President Donald Trump’s first administration. After leaving office last January, Trump put many of those policies back into place and also threatened to find and deport illegal migrants.
As a result, the border is seeing record-low crossings, according to federal officials.
The counting of illegal immigrants in America is tricky. While based on Census numbers, it is still difficult to come up with an air-tight number. Different groups use different formulas to determine a number.
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At CIS, the experts estimated that there are a total of 15.8 million illegal immigrants in the United States. A new analysis by another key immigration think tank, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, set it higher at 18.6 million.
Both agreed that the numbers hit records during Biden’s four-year term and that the crisis scuttled projections by the Census.