(The Center Square) – More than 240,000 people were apprehended illegally crossing the border in October, the highest on record for the month of October in recorded history.
The number does not include gotaways, which U.S. Customs and Border Protection does not publicly release but The Center Square exclusively obtains from a border agent. The October number is likely to rise significantly when the gotaway data becomes available. Gotaways is the official CBP term for those who illegally entered between ports of entry, intentionally sought to evade capture, and don’t return to Mexico.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has blamed the previous administration for inheriting a broken immigration system, but his and the Biden administration’s policies led to more than 10 million illegal border crossers since January 2021, critics argue. Calls for Mayorkas’ impeachment have escalated as new record numbers of illegal border crossers are reported each month.
In October, there were 240,988 total southwest border encounters, according to CBP data. Also last month, CBP officials processed for entry into the U.S. over 44,000 people using the CBP One App. The mobile app, CBP says, “remains a key component of DHS’s efforts to incentivize noncitizens to use lawful, safe, and orderly pathways and disincentivize attempts to cross between ports of entry.”
Since January, nearly 324,000 people have scheduled appointments and arrived at ports of entry using the app to be released into the U.S., CBP says. The top nationalities using the app are Venezuelans, Mexicans and Haitians.
The majority that came through last month, more than 51%, were single adults, totaling over 123,000. Roughly 44% were individuals presenting as a family unit, totaling over 106,000. Nearly 5% were unaccompanied minors, totaling over 11,500.
While Texas sectors have traditionally had the highest numbers, in the first month in fiscal 2024, Tucson Sector reported the highest number of Border Patrol apprehensions of 55,224. The next highest apprehensions reported by Border Patrol agents were in Texas: Del Rio Sector (38,211) and Rio Grande Valley Sector (32,107).
The majority of the single adults came from “Other” countries. Traditionally, CBP has categorized the countries of origin of illegal border crossers based on volume, officials have explained to The Center Square. Initially, Mexico, or “other than Mexico,” were the main categories; then Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. The category of “Other” is now used as a catch-all category for citizens who are now coming from over 170 countries.
The overwhelming majority of illegal border crossers, as it has been nearly every month in recent history, have fallen into the “Other” category. October was no exception, with over 92,000 coming from countries all over the world. Mexicans accounted for the second-highest number of people coming through due to a policy change implemented by the Biden administration. The next highest numbers came from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
If the October numbers continue along the same trajectory, fiscal 2024 could have higher numbers than fiscal 2023. In fiscal 2023, nearly 4 million people were reported illegally entering the U.S. nationwide – the highest number in U.S. history. The federal fiscal year runs from Oct. 1 through the following Sept. 30.
Over 10 million have illegally entered since January 2021, including gotaways, The Center Square first reported.
There have been roughly 1.7 million gotaways reported since January 2021, although this number is estimated to be closer to 2 million, The Center Square first reported.
Among them was a record high number of 736 known, suspected terrorists apprehended in fiscal 2023 alone, the highest in recorded history. The majority, 66%, were apprehended at the northern border, The Center Square first reported.
It’s the equivalent of creating cities of criminal law-breaking people the size of a Norfolk, Louisville, Reno, Lubbock or Laredo each month, or another democrat voting crime run city the size of Chicago in America each year. On the bad side these foreign entering people with criminal mindsets and foreign ideologies will probably accelerate the inevitable coming nuclear war. On the bright side with the major Blue Democrat cities being the major targets of our foreign enemies, it would probably rid us of most secular socialist Democrat voters who keep slouching us toward Gomorrah. It is a no-win scenario for the average guy who just wants to be left alone, protected by a government that is being paid more than enough to get the job done, safe in his own home, safe on the streets, safe in his shopping malls and even his own National Capitol City. Biden economics is the inverse relationship between American investment of honest money, and a decent return on the investment thereof that just never seems to appear when Democrats call the shots, which first go through the heads of the citizens in the form of lead on our streets, and media malfunctioning manipulation of our minds, then through our pocketbooks in moral and economic bankruptcy.
Considering size of one of our so-called advisories, we may need that growth in population (military strength), say, on down the line( 25 years from now). US population not growing. Folk in yesteryear would have 5-6 kids now 1 maybe 2. It is what it is. Didn’t stop us from coming (I’m sure Native Americans had some issue) and we came anyway.
WHY:? DO you honestly think any of these illegal invaders, would be willing to FIGHT FOR this nation, when they won’;t fight for their HOME NATION??
Paid for mercenaries just never can compete with the real deals. Say whay you may about Wasps, but history proves that in war, there is no more efficient people when the need to kill enemies arises.
The damage is done. This can not be corrected. Like it or not this will be the new America.
ONLY, if WE the PEOPLE lay back and let it, by allowing people like the treasonous Barack Obama and his corrupt puppet Joe Biden to be elected.
The treasonous, destructive, dishonest, unethical, immoral, demonic, woke, socialist Democrat Party IS our country’s most DEADLIEST ENEMY.
If WE the PEOPLE do not wake up as see this, WE the PEOPLE will be servants, slaves, subjects and wards to this Damnable Democrat Party dictatorship.
AND WE WILL NOT LIKE IT!!!
ONLY IF we let it be that way Patriot.