Sen. Cotton blasts Biden for 'astonishing' number of migrant encounters: He wants to break his own record

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SEN. TOM COTTON: These are astonishing surges in illegal immigration at our border. As we heard from Bill [Melugin], there was a record in 2021, the highest number of illegal immigrants encountered at our border in 22 years. And those are just the ones that the Border Patrol encountered, not the ones that got away. But apparently, Joe Biden is not resting on his laurels after setting the record last year, he wants to break his own record in 2022.

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We might have more than two million illegals crossing our border this year. And as you said, Harris, those are not people seeking asylum from persecution. They’re coming for one reason. That’s because they know that Joe Biden will let them in. That’s dangerous for America, because many times they’re smuggling and drugs as well. There are gang members or other kinds of criminals that are crossing our uncontrolled border.

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