Altogether, roughly 1.6 million illegal immigrants were seen entering the country and evading apprehension from 2021-23, more than the entire decade from fiscal years 2010-2020.
In 2019, Jeh Johnson, who served as Homeland Security secretary during the Obama administration, said that a daily encounter average of 1,000 per day would overwhelm Border Patrol.
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MoreillegalimmigrantshaveevadedborderauthoritiesandenteredtheUnitedStatessincePresidentJoeBidentookofficethanduringthepreviousdecade.
Newdataon“gotaways,”immigrantswhoareseencrossingtheU.S.borderandenteringthecountryillegallywhilesuccessfullyevadinglawenforcement,showsthatsuchillegalentrieshaveexplodedundertheBidenadministration,accordingtoFoxNews,whichobtainedthedataviaanopenrecordsrequest.
Therecordsshowthatfromfiscalyear2010throughfiscalyear2020,morethan1.4milliongotawayswererecordedenteringthecountryillegally.Thenumberofsuchillegalentriestaggedinayearrangedfromalowofabout86,000in2011tonearly172,000in2013.
DuringBiden’sterm,thenumberofgotawaysseenbutnotapprehendedhasju
