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ANFINSEN: “Not only was the entire world encouraged to essentially illegally cross our borders, primarily with the goal of abusing the asylum system, but it caused our agents to be sidelined, left unable to do the jobs. Our job's shifted from that of law enforcement to that of processing asylum claims, sitting behind computers on a virtual assembly line, while illegal aliens disappeared into the country because we weren’t there to do it. And a lot of these folks were only discovered later, after being arrested for all sorts of crimes, some of them minor and some of them horrific. To put this in context, during the 12 years of Presidents Obama and Trump, there were approximately 1.6 million gotaways across all 12 years. During President Biden's four years, there were over 2 million. Now, this surge overwhelmed our resources and it led to tragic consequences. During President Biden's tenure, we saw an average of 690 deaths at the border per year, with FY22 being the worse, when there were over 900 deaths of people trying to cross the border. You compare that to an average of 370 deaths per year under President Obama and 280 under President Trump, and not all of these deaths are unfortunate, but it gives you an idea of how out-of-control things were or became over the past four years."
