The number of illegal border crossings at the northern and southern borders and all ports of entry since January 2021 totals more than eight million people, greater than the individual populations of 38 U.S. states.
While most media attention has focused on southern, and more recently, northern border encounters, these numbers don't account for all nationwide U.S. Customs and Border Protection encounters.
CBP's 20 sectors include U.S. territories and ports of entries nationwide that aren't solely located at the northern and southern borders.
In an interview with The Center Square, former acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Mark Morgan, who was also chief of U.S. Border Patrol, delved into the numbers.
There are at least 1,454,000 known gotaways reported by Border Patrol and CBP Office of Field Operations agents from January 2021 to April 2023, Morgan says, according to FOIAs he's filed with CBP. In fiscal 2021, there were at least 308,655 known, reported gotaways; in fiscal 2022, 606,150; in fiscal 2023 at least 540,000 so far, he says, but that number's on track to exceed one million.
The Center Square has been reporting preliminary monthly gotaway data compiled solely by U.S. Border Patrol obtained from a Border Patrol agent on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.
In an attempt to explain this, outgoing Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz recently testified before Congress that gotaway data is underreported by roughly 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, and at least 60,327 gotaways The Center Square reported last month, illegal border crossers since Biden's been in office total at least 8,062,646.
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