San Diego Supervisor Urges US Senate to ‘Fix the Chaos’ at Border Amid Record Illegal Immigrant Surge

Nationally, more than 12,600 illegal immigrants were encountered at the southern border on Dec. 19 alone, the most ever recorded in a single day.

Illegal immigrants who passed through a gap in the U.S. border wall await processing by Border Patrol agents in Jacumba, Calif., on Dec. 7, 2023. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

Amid record numbers of illegal border crossings this week and thousands of illegal immigrants “pouring into” the United States every day, San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond issued an urgent plea to the federal government to “fix the chaos and restore order.”

“Foreign aid should not be the dealbreaker when it comes to securing our border,” he said, referring to the federal budget impasse in the U.S. Senate, in a Dec. 19 statement.