(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said he expects the committee to produce "multiple bills" addressing border security.
"You're going to come out with legislation, potential legislation?" Maria Bartiromo asked Jordan on "Sunday Morning Futures."
"Yes, we are," Jordon told her:
"That will be in about a month. We're working on that. We think it'll be multiple bills that will address the situation.
"And understand this. This administration decided on day one, January 20, 2021, they decided they were going to open the border, because Joe Biden announced, we're not going to have remain-in-Mexico. We're not -- we're no longer going to build a wall. And we're not going to deport anyone coming in for an immigration violation.
"And, as a result, people come. They know they won't have to wait Mexico. There's no wall to get over. And then, when they get in, they're not going to be deported. And you have seen this -- shazam, you see this influx of people, which was -- I think anyone can understand, when you have those policies in place, you're going to get this.
"And so we're going to try to firm up the policies that were in place under President Trump with legislation."
Jordan did not describe the bills he envisions, and no matter what emerges from his committee, or even from the Republican-controlled House, is likely to be tabled in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
As the table below shows, Border Patrol agents encountered 78,414 illegal aliens at the southwest border in January 2021, the month Biden took office.
The following month, the number leaped 29 percent to 101,099, and it has mostly escalated since then, never dropping below the hundred-thousand mark in any given month since Biden's inauguration.
Since February 2021, the first full month of Biden's tenure, to January 2023, Customs and Border Protection counts 4,763,742 encounters of people trying to cross into the United States without authorization.
Many request asylum. Some are returned to their country of origin. And an unknown number of illegal aliens are never apprehended after crossing into the United States.
Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson -- who may be mulling a run for the Republican presidential nomination -- said a "straightforward border security bill" has to come before any reform of U.S. immigration laws.
Border security "should be able to get through Congress in a bipartisan way that puts more resources for the Border Patrol for our immigration processing, for the security of our country.
"And so let's do a border security bill first. That should be done now. And that's where we stop -- that's where we start. And that builds faith with the American public that we can have more comprehensive reform once we secure the border itself."