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Arizona Sheriff Mark Dannels revealed, during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, the true reason illegal aliens are coming to the United States is President Joe Biden’s “welcoming sign.”

“The majority of people — we have an interdiction team that goes out daily — yesterday, they were out for their shift and had 15 smuggling events,” he began. “The majority of people we talk to, the majority of migrants that have been smuggled, which I call modern-day slavery what they’re doing to these people, they tell us the reason they’re here is because of President Biden and [give] a welcoming sign.”

“Currently, this is the ugliest I’ve experienced,” Dannels revealed.

Dannels is correct. Biden’s Administration is set to bring in a record 2.17 million illegal aliens through the United States/Mexico border this year alone, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

From the beginning of 2022 to September 2022, the total number of known or suspected terrorists arrested at the southern border to 98, which is not the norm. In the past five years, most of which were under Trump, there were only 26 arrests of known or suspected terrorists.

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“September’s migrant encounter number was a significant increase from the same month in recent years. In September 2021, there were 192,001 migrant encounters. Border agents encountered 57,674 migrants in September 2020 and 52,546 in September 2019,” CBP commissioner Chris Magnus wrote in a press statement. “CBP and DHS will continue to work with our partners in the region to address the root causes of migration, expand legal pathways, facilitate removals, and take thousands of smugglers off the streets.”

“No matter what smugglers say, those who do not have a legal basis to remain in the country will be removed and people should not make the dangerous journey,” Trump said at a South Texas rally in September. “They’re invading our southern border. We had it stopped. Biden has allowed millions and millions of illegal aliens to storm across the border.”

As President Biden continues to ignore his responsibility to defend America’s sovereignty and enforce American law, citizens suffer. Biden’s reluctance to change his policies and instead double down on measures that invite migrants into the country proves that Biden prioritizes the needs of illegal immigrants over those of American citizens.