(Fox News) Nearly 1.4 million undocumented immigrants from a staggering 177 countries traveled through Mexico to the United States from January to May, according to Mexico’s National Institute of Migration.
Surges of illegal immigration “over brief periods of time” have happened in the past, said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, but this “huge variety” of countries is unprecedented.
Considering there are 193 member states in the United Nations, nearly the entire world is taking advantage of the president’s “open invite,” he said.
There were always a few exotics, that’s kind of my term. They call them OTMs, other than Mexicans, because there were so few of them that they lumped them all together,” Krikorian told Fox News Digital. But President Biden “essentially invited mass illegal immigration by letting people get across the border, and word spreads, so you’re getting people from everywhere.”
A group of adult and child migrants are smuggled at the Tijuana-San Diego border, as they climb the wall to seek asylum to the United States in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, on June 7, 2024. The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, said recently that he was seeking an agreement with his counterpart, US President Biden, where migrants deported following the new executive order signed by Biden would be sent directly to their country of origin, instead of being transferred to Mexico, during a conference. (Carlos Moreno/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The White House could not immediately be reached for comment.
The influx of undocumented immigrants has overwhelmed the country’s social services system, crowded school districts that are already bursting at the seams and flooded the streets with homeless encampments, Krikorian said.
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There’s also the hotly debated issue of crime.
Statistically, studies have differed on whether there is a link between immigration and spikes in violence, although illegal immigrants have been charged with high-profile crimes, such as the murders of Rachel Morin in Maryland and Georgia student Laken Riley.
Victor Martinez Hernandez, 23, was arrested in the murder of Rachel Morin. (Harford Co. Sheriff’s Office)
Laken Riley’s killing has gripped the nation as the border crisis continues. (ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images)
Some of the stats are “ambiguous,” Krikorian said, but “it doesn’t matter.”
Victims allegedly died at the hands of suspects “who shouldn’t have been here (in the U.S.) in the first place,” he said. “This is a direct result of Biden’s invitation to people around the world to illegally
Illegal immigration from Mexico into the U.S. is nothing new, and has ebbed and flowed over the years. “It’s a perennial issue,” as Krikorian described it.
But the global influx using the world’s busiest corridor of illegal immigration – from Mexico into the U.S. – has already created a virtually irreversible situation in the country, according to Krikorian.
