Illegal immigration costs American taxpayers and hospitals billions of dollars in medical costs every year, the Federation for American Immigration Reform pointed out.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced his proposal to crack down on illegal immigration by increasing penalties for human smuggling, strengthening statutes for the detention of illegal aliens, requiring universal use of E-Verify, enhancing penalties for document falsification, and prohibiting the issuance of ID cards to people not lawfully in the country.
The Biden administration is proposing new rules, similar to a Trump-era policy, to reduce fraudulent asylum claims and discourage illegal immigration by presuming asylum ineligibility for migrants crossing through other nations to reach the U.S. Southern Border.
In the 2022 fiscal year, 2,176 Chinese nationals were encountered at the southern border, while in the 2023 fiscal year, in just the first three months, southern border patrol agents reported 1,915 Chinese migrants attempting to enter the country.
ICE underreported the number of illegal immigrants released into the country without tracking technology by over 18,000% and misreporting the number of illegal immigrants tracked with GPS technology by approximately 600%.
Delivering his second speech in a day, former President Donald Trump denounced the unbelievable failures of President Joe Biden's administration over the past two-plus years.
A poll has found that the vast majority of Americans do not agree that there should be a blanket amnesty for immigrants who cross the border into the United States illegally.
