Illegal Immigrant ‘gotaways’ Crossing US-Mexico Border Number More Than Half a Million, DHS Sources Say; The 500,000 ‘Known Gotaways’ Who Snuck Across Biden’s Open Border This Year Are Likely Much Higher

Illegal immigrant ‘gotaways’ crossing US-Mexico border number more than half a million, DHS sources say:

The U.S.-Mexico border has had more than half a million known “gotaways” sneak across into the U.S. since fiscal year 2022 began on October 1, Fox News has learned.

Multiple senior Department of Homeland Security sources told Fox News of the rising number of known gotaways – illegal immigrants who are spotted crossing the border but are never caught – with three months remaining in FY’22.

That number has already eclipsed the 389,155 known​ gotaways that DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas previosuly testified there were in all of FY’21.

There has been an average of over 55,000 known gotaways per month​ in FY’22, according to the DHS sources. —>READ MORE HERE

The 500,000 ‘Known Gotaways’ Who Snuck Across Biden’s Open Border This Year Are Likely Much Higher:

‘By leaving hundreds and hundreds of miles of border completely unpatrolled … that number is very very, very artificially low.’

More than half a million “known gotaways” have snuck across the U.S.-Mexico border since the beginning of the 2022 fiscal year in October. But that number is likely much higher thanks to President Joe Biden’s open border policies.

According to a new report from Fox News, the Department of Homeland Security spotted at least 55,000 “known gotaways” along the border each month this fiscal year. Despite the Biden administration’s repeated insistence that the border is under control, that number far outpaces the 389,155 gotaways reported by DHS for all of the 2021 fiscal year.

While some illegal immigrants enter the U.S. and immediately turn themselves in to Border Patrol for processing and release, gotaways are those who illegally enter the U.S. with no intention of getting caught. They actively avoid detection, often flee when pursued by Border Patrol or local law enforcement, and are more likely to have criminal records or be participants in criminal enterprises.

It’s hard to pin down the exact number of gotaways since some illegal border crossers, especially traffickers and smugglers, make it their job to evade arrest, but former Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol Rodney Scott told The Federalist that the actual number of 2022 gotaways is already likely much higher than half a million.

“The 500,000 that are documented, they do exist. But by leaving hundreds and hundreds of miles of border completely unpatrolled for days or weeks at a time, which is what’s going on currently because most agents are in processing, that number is very very, very artificially low,” Scott, now a senior distinguished fellow for border security at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, said. —>READ MORE HERE

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