TEXAS UNDER SEIGE

President Joe Biden's open border policy has weaponized the flood gates of undocumented immigrants out of Venezuela through Panama through Costa Rica through Nicaragua through Mexico and over the Texas Border where beinPresident.  It is part of a larger recent surge in crossings all along the southern border. The increase in migrants, many from Venezuela, has strained local, state and federal resources there.  Record numbers of migrants have crossed illegally since Biden took office in 2021. The Biden administration announced it would grant nearly half a million Venezuelans already in the U.S. access to work permits.The number of undocumented immigrant crossings at the southwest border for fiscal year 2022 topped 2.76 million, breaking the previous annual record by more than 1 million, according to Customs and Border Protection data. About 541,000 migrants have entered the United States since late 2021—in many cases bypassing the U.S.-Mexico border—under the Biden CBP encounters nationwide are at least 6,547,514 (January 2021 through May 2023).