Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Byron York Show, the no-chit-chat podcast.

We'd like to get right to it, and what we're going to get to today is the border crisis,

the continuing border crisis, the never-ending border crisis.

Obviously, if you watch much news, reports are dominated by reporting on what's happening

on the Russia-Ukraine border by Russia's threat to Ukraine by increasing fatigue with

COVID restrictions around the country and by the continuing rise of inflation.

Now, all of those are absolutely newsworthy topics, but another newsworthy subject, which

is the mess on the United States-Mexico border, is receiving relatively little attention.

The reason I'm talking about it today is there's new word that it is getting worse.

Much worse.

Fox News has obtained new figures that show border authorities encountered 153,941 illegal

border crossers in January.

Now, those numbers don't mean a lot unless you can compare them to something else, and that

is almost double the number from one year ago in January, 2021, and at that point, authorities

encountered 78,414 crossers.

So, this last January, January, 2022, 153,000, January, 2021, 78,000.

And that figure, the one in 2021, was more than double the number from a year before that

in January, 2020, when the number of illegal border crossers encountered was 36,585.

So this is a bad trend.

2021 was double, 2020, and 2022 was double, 2021.

So it goes from 36,000 illegal border crosser encounters in January, 2020, 36,000, and then

it goes up to 78,000 in January, 2021, and then it goes up to 153,000 just a few days

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