Around 1.5 million illegal immigrants have been able to sneak across the border and remain the country under President Joe Biden, the U.S. Border Patrol chief told Congress on Wednesday. Raul L. Ortiz told the House’s Homeland Security Committee on March 15 that Biden’s unwillingness to protect the border has opened the doors to around 1.5 million undocumented immigrants from the south, citing updated numbers. Almost 6 million illegal immigrants have now entered and attempted to remain the United States in 2021 and 2022, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Of these, the latest figures show that 1.3 million so-called “gotaways” were spotted by Border Patrol’s agents and surveillance systems, plus an estimated 200,000 additional untracked immigrants, said Ortiz, who provided agency data….

For the United States, the problem of immigration is nothing new, having plagued the nation for decades. But while the issue stands as one of the most divisive in party politics today, there was a time when lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were able to reach a bipartisan agreement on what needed to be done. Now, amid increasing concerns over record-high crossings at the U.S.–Mexico border, one advocacy group is calling on legislators to reconsider those decades-old recommendations. The NumbersUSA Education and Research Foundation is the “nation’s largest immigration-reduction grassroots organization in the country,” according to the organization’s vice president and deputy director, Chris Chmielenski….