BURSTThe immigration surge under President Biden has been the largest in U.S. history, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
The U.S.’s net migration per year, which is how many people exit the country subtracted from how many people enter, came out to an average of 2.4 million people between 2021 and 2023, the Congressional Budget Office said, according to the Times. Overall, under the Biden administration, net migration has a high chance of topping 8 million people, the Times reported.
According to the Times, the total number of 2021-23 arrivals is the highest in U.S. history over any three-year span, and by a share of the total U.S. population, it is the highest in nearly 175 years.
U.S. politics in recent years has increasingly focused on immigration and border security, with President-elect Trump making the issues a centerpiece of his recent bid for the presidency and Republicans hammering the Biden administration over its handling of the border. Stephen Miller, the president-elect’s pick for his deputy chief of staff for policy, recently reiterated Trump’s first priority will be mass deportations.
Miller told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo in his recent appearance on “Sunday Morning Futures” that the president-elect has plans to “issue a series of executive orders that seal the border shut and begin the largest deportation operation in American history.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Monday that a border security bill should be “the first order of business in the Senate Budget Committee” in the next Congress.
“Stephen Miller was spot on when he said that the Senate and House should first pass a border security bill through the budget reconciliation process,” Graham wrote in a post on the social platform X.
“While I support spending restrictions and tax cuts, my top priority – and the first order of business in the Senate Budget Committee – is to secure a broken border,” the incoming leader of the Budget Committee added. “The bill will be transformational, it will be paid for, and it will go first.”