The number of people illegally entering the country surged after Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas halted many preexisting border security policies, advanced sweeping parole and other policies to release the greatest number of illegal foreign nationals into the country, encouraged people from all over the world to use a phone app to enter the U.S., and facilitated U.S. entry application processes in foreign countries, among others.
Since January 2021, a minimum estimate of nearly 1.7 million gotaways have illegally entered the U.S. Based on earlier projections and including Office of Field Operations data, former CBP chief Mark Morgan told The Center Square the gotaway data is likely to reach or exceed one million for fiscal 2023 alone.
The Center Square has not yet received total internal gotaway numbers.
Combined with at least 1,678,979 gotaways, the number increases to over 10 million.
The only states with an estimated population greater than the number of illegal border crossers are California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia and North Carolina.
The total number of illegal border crossers during the period equates to 25% of California's population, 33% of Texas' population, 44% of Florida's population and nearly 52% of New York's population.
In fiscal 2023, CBP agents apprehended the greatest number of KSTs - 736 - in a single year in U.S. history.
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