Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion

by Allie Beth Stuckey

In fiscal year 2021, Border Patrol made nearly 1.7 million apprehensions of illegal immigrants, the largest number ever recorded.[8] That is more illegal immigrants entering in one year than the urban population of any single city in America except for New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.[9] It’s enough people to replace the population of New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, or that of seven other states.[10] Border Patrol estimates that another two million immigrants crossed the border illegally and got away, though there is no way they could know for sure, in large part due to the sheer volume of immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security estimates that an even larger number—four million—crossed the border in that same fiscal year, 2021.[11] If that level of illegal immigration stayed steady for President Biden’s term alone, in just four years more illegal immigrants would have entered the country than the population of forty-six states.[12]