CBP Released Monthly — and Year-Ending — Immigration Numbers and Reports A Record-Number of Illegal Aliens

dailywire.com U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed on Saturday that the agency encountered nearly 270,000 illegal aliens at the U.S. southern border for the month of September. ::: The total — 269,735 illegal alien encounters — was the highest single-month total ever recorded. :::September's numbers close out Fiscal Year 2023 with a total of 2,475,669 illegal alien encounters. President Joe Biden?s illegal immigration crisis on the southern border has worsened every year that he has been in office, with Fiscal Year 2022 having 2,378,944 encounters and Fiscal Year 2021 having 1,734,686 encounters.

rt.com US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended a record 269,735 illegal immigrants along the US-Mexico border in September, the agency confirmed in a report on Saturday. The total exceeds the previous record set in May 2022. ::: Fiscal year 2023 also set an all-time record for illegal immigration into the US, with 2.47 million recorded migrant encounters exceeding even 2022?s record-setting 2.3 million, according to government figures.

NOTE These are not the finalized numbers, we should expected updates.

Venezuelans become largest nationality for illegal border crossings as September numbers surge (#AssociatedPress)

clickondetroit.com/#AssociatedPress Venezuelans became the largest nationality arrested for illegally crossing the U.S. border, replacing Mexicans for the first time on record, according to figures released Saturday that show September was the second-highest month for arrests of all nationalities. ::: Venezuelans were arrested 54,833 times by the Border Patrol after entering from Mexico in September, more than double from 22,090 arrests in August and well above the previous monthly high of 33,749 arrests in September 2022.

Over 3,000 migrants have hit NYC shelter time limit, but about half have asked to stay, report says (#AssociatedPress)

ny1.com/#AssociatedPress About 3,000 asylum-seekers have been told their time was up in New York City shelters, but about half have reapplied to stay, according to a newspaper report. ::: — ::: Mayor Eric Adams announced in July that New York would start giving adult migrants 60 days' notice to move out of city shelters. The policy has since been extended to families with children, and tightened to 30 days for adults not accompanied by youngsters.

Biden is dangling border security money to try to get billions more for Israel and Ukraine (#AssociatedPress)

ny1.com/#AssociatedPress President Joe Biden is trying to sweeten his pitch for more money for Ukraine by mixing in billions of dollars for securing the U.S.-Mexico border in the hope that it will bring more Republicans on board. ::: The idea came up late last month, after Ukraine assistance was stripped out of a stopgap measure to keep the government running due to growing Republican resistance to financing the war effort. A lot has changed since Sept. 30: The House has lost its speaker and Republicans are in disarray over selecting a new one, and the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel has prompted a much bigger funding request by the White House. ::: It's not at all clear that including roughly $14 billion in border money included as part of the the $106 billion spending package the White House sent to Congress on Friday will placate those who are resisting.