Illegals Crossing the Border So Far This Year Surpasses Last Year's Total

And they're being housed and fed by taxpayers.

6.21.2016

Though not quite up to 2014 levels, the number of illegal aliens crossing the border so far this year has already surpassed the entire number that crossed in 2015, reports Legal Insurrection.

Homeland Security statistics were released on Friday, showing that in fiscal year 2015, less than 40,000 illegals crossed into the United States from the southern border. This year, the number flooding in has already reached 45,000 with more coming everyday.

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions (R) is blaming the Obama administration for "flooding rural towns with illegals," according to LI, as they are seized after crossing the border and shipped to other states, including his own and New England. He said the residents of these locations feel that President Obama is a "dictator from Washington" who isn't listening to the will of the people who don't want illegals in their communities.

What's worse, the illegals are being held and fed for a short time before they are released and end up where they wanted to go anyway. Sessions said:

"What’s happening in Alabama is happening around the country and it is the result of idiotic policy… that’s encouraging more people to come illegally, and then we treat them, we house them, we feed them for months, and we release them basically on bail and then they just go where they wanted to go to begin with.

"As long as you prolong this, the costs are incredible. Are we now going to build barracks and prison cells in Alabama?"

TruthRevolt previously reported how a surge in "families" crossing the border has put even more strain on the U.S.'s fractured immigration system. Making matters worse, the Obama administration has documented an increase in the number of children kidnapped by illegals as they attempt to look like a family in order to avoid detainment and be released more quickly.