Nearly 300,000 illegal immigrants escaped border agents in less than four months: sources
Nearly 300,000 illegal immigrants are known to have escaped overstretched Border Patrol agents since the start of fiscal year 2023, which began in October, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sources told TOU. ).
Sources said there have been 293,993 known “getaways” that eluded officers but were spotted through some other form of surveillance since October 1.
That’s an average of 2,450 per day over the past 120 days. Sources told TOU getaways are now at an unprecedented rate. And border officials are worried because they don’t know who these people are, where they’re from, or where they’re trying to get inside the United States.
In fiscal year 2022, there were nearly 600,000 getaways. There were 389,155 border escapades in fiscal year 2021, and fiscal year 2023 is on track to easily surpass those numbers. Last week, agents told TOU there have been more than 1.2 million getaways under the Biden administration.
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Migrants stand near the US-Mexico border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, December 19, 2022.
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Tom Homan, a former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), told TOU the number should “frighten all Americans” and said there’s a reason these migrants don’t not surrender to the Border Patrol to be processed and released in the United States
“Why wouldn’t they take advantage of the program? Because they don’t want to be fingerprinted, and there’s a reason for that.
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“They’re gang members. They’ll be sexual predators. They’ll be criminals. They’ll be people with fentanyl. Not all of them. But there’s a reason they didn’t turn up to take advantage of the program. gifts from the Biden administration,” he said.
These figures add to the historic number of migrant encounters at the US border, with more than 250,000 encounters in December alone, a new record.
The Biden administration highlighted the unveiling of a new set of border security measures, including a humanitarian parole program for four nationalities combined with expanded Title 42 deportations and a rule that would make migrants ineligible for asylum if they had passed through a third country but did not apply for asylum there.
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This program has drawn heat from Republicans and Democrats. Democrats and leftist groups have blasted asylum ineligibility and Title 42 extensions as eroding the right to asylum.
President Biden talks about inflation and supply chain issues in Los Angeles.
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Twenty Republican states have sued the parole program, saying it violates the Administrative Procedure Act and goes beyond congressional guidelines that limit parole to case-by-case situations. They say the 30,000 per month limit imposed on the program by the administration is in violation of these regulations.
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The Biden administration says the program is working and fixtures of these nationalities have dropped 97% and January fixtures are on track to be the lowest since the crisis began in February 2021.
