U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 232,972 total encounters along the southwest border in August.
The data includes 181,059 encounters with illegal border crossers reported between ports of entry along the Southwest border by Border Patrol agents.
Including the gotaway number, total illegal border crossers apprehended or reported evading capture last month was at least 261,327.
Fiscal year to date, 389,330 illegal border crossers have been apprehended in El Paso, 347,572 in Del Rio, and 292,576 in the Rio Grande Valley.
The majority of illegal border crossers are single adults, totaling nearly 1.2 million fiscal year to date.
Over 118,000 unaccompanied children have been brought into the U.S. through the southern border.
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.
The number is believed to be much higher because Border Patrol agents, law enforcement officers, Homeland Security - the agency tasked with defending the homeland - have no idea how many come through who weren't captured on camera or reported.
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