As many as 1.2 million illegal immigrants may have evaded detection and sneaked into the country over the last year and more will come if they hear about plans to pay $450,000 to some migrants, a top Border Patrol union official said in a new podcast released Friday by Sen. Marsha Blackburn and provided first to The Washington Times.
Chris Cabrera, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council's Rio Grande Valley chapter and spokesman for the national organization, said the public figure is 400,000 "Gotaways," but given the realities of the border right now, that's a serious undercount.
The Tennessee Republican and the agent reviewed the latest happenings on the border and in particular was worried Biden administration negotiations to pay some illegal immigrants $450,000 in compensation for having been part of family separations during the Trump era will entice still more people to come.
Agents set a new record for apprehensions with nearly 1.7 million arrests along the southern border in fiscal year 2021, which ended Sept. 30.
Border law enforcement officials have estimates of how many they detected crossing but didn't catch.
Steven A. Camarota, the center's demographer, said the population survey shows a lot of month-to-month variation and more data will be needed, but the "dramatic" increase reflects the Biden border migrant surge, as well as the administration's moves to open the aperture on legal immigrants.
Mr. Cabrera said given what's happening at the border, "it's much easier to come in illegally than it is coming in legally so people are going to take advantage of that.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/nov/5/border-patrol-agent-says-12-million-illegal-immigr/
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