Bensman: 10 Million Illegal Aliens Have Entered the U.S. Since Biden Took Office

During the three years that President Joe Biden has been America’s commander-in-chief, there have been more than 10 million illegal aliens who have crossed the U.S. southern border.

That figure is provided in a recent op-ed by Todd Bensman, Sr. National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).

“That’s the most in the history of just about any nation in modern times,” Bensman writes.

CIS obtained the figures through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that is still being litigated.

The numbers include migrants who have been encountered at the border by authorities, as well as the number of known “gotaways” who are tallied by the federal government.

What has helped fuel the massive number of foreign nationals funneling into the U.S. is a mobile app called CBP One, Bensman explains.

The CBP One app is free to download and allows migrants to register “24 hours a day, 7 days a week,” according to the CBP website.

Through the app, migrants who have been detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers are able to apply for humanitarian parole. “It’s a program Biden introduced with no Congressional approval, no law, no authorization,” Bensman said.

“‘Parole’ was a policy meant to use in emergencies on a ‘case-by-case basis,’ if someone shows up at the border with an emergency asylum claim, a fear for their life, some tiny number could be allowed inside the country, then returned when the emergency is over,” Bensman wrote.

Given that this entire program was enacted unilaterally and there is no legislative basis for the program, “Biden is breaking the law,” he argues.

In May 2021, “Biden introduced the CBP One app, allowing large numbers of people claiming presumptive emergencies to apply online for entry,” Bensman said.

“These aren’t legitimate claims, they are people wanting to come to America to work,” he added. “Biden was trying to use this legally questionable program to alleviate the large crowds at the border, which was hurting him politically. The app was about fooling the media, not actually limiting migrants.”