{"id":207799,"date":"2024-01-29T08:11:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T12:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=207799"},"modified":"2024-01-29T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T12:11:09","slug":"december-border-surge-sets-alarming-record-371000-illegal-crossings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=207799","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>December Border Surge Sets Alarming Record: 371,000 Illegal Crossings<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>A record-breaking number of illegal immigrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border last month, according to data released Friday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), as the border crisis continues to rage with no end in sight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/image%281468%29.jpg?itok=si8AhPhq\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"388e57e4-1f06-4d11-8c08-db2f9d22ec68\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><em>A group of more than 1,000 unvetted immigrants wait in line near a U.S. Border Patrol field processing center after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico, in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Dec. 18, 2023. (John Moore\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A stunning\u00a0<strong>371,036 encounters were caught entering the United States illegally in December<\/strong>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/nationwide-encounters\">data show<\/a>, breaking the previous record of 341,392 set in August 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Encounters along the southwest land border also set a new record, hitting 302,034, per\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters\">other data<\/a>\u00a0released by CBP on Jan. 26<\/p>\n<p>The record-shattering numbers come ahead of House Republican efforts to impeach Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his handling of the illegal immigration crisis.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>READ HERE<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/december-border-surge-sets-alarming-record-371000-illegal-crossings\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/december-border-surge-sets-alarming-record-371000-illegal-crossings<\/a><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}