Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said last week that he has directed the agency to stop using the term “illegal alien” when referring to foreign nationals who come into the United States illegally.
"Encounters of illegal migrants by the Border Patrol at the Southwest Border were down in June, but only because the Biden administration has invented other means of allowing large numbers of inadmissible aliens to enter the country," Stein pointed out.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's efforts against MS-13 gang members have helped reduce the number of illegal immigrants entering the United States.
In the aftermath of violent riots and looting in France, the country's former intelligence chief, Pierre Brochand, has blamed the disorder on the mass immigration policies of the last 50 years.
The Supreme Court gave the Biden administration a victory in an immigration case, ruling that Republican states could not challenge a policy narrowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) priorities for arresting and deporting illegal immigrants.
The multi-agency collaboration has resulted in "over 384,000 illegal immigrant apprehensions and more than 29,000 criminal arrests," including "over 28,000 felony charges reported."