Among the more than 8.6 million people who've illegally entered the U.S., at least nearly 1.6 million are "Gotaways." Gotaways is the official term used by Border Patrol agents to describe foreign nationals who illegally enter the U.S. between ports of entry and don't return to Mexico or Canada.
Gotaway data represents the best guess of agents who report the number of people they believe to be gotaways, agents have explained to The Center Square.
Agents report gotaways based on images of people caught on cameras set up by Border Patrol, ranchers or private property owners.
The Center Square has been reporting preliminary gotaway data every month received from a Border Patrol agent who accesses an internal U.S. Border Patrol database.
After agents report their findings, for a range of reasons, sector chiefs change them, and in some Texas sectors, the agent said, gotaway numbers don't make sense.
Some sectors are reporting significantly lower gotaway data than they did previously but they still have a high volume of foot traffic.
Former Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz acknowledged the discrepancy with how gotaway data is reported when he testified before Congress, saying gotaway data is underreported by between 10% to 20%. When adding 6,547,514 official CBP total national apprehensions and confirmed 1,454,805 gotaways from January 2021 through April 2023, previously reported by The Center Square, with additional three months of data the numbers are the highest they've been in U.S. history.
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