According to media reports, approximately 194,000 migrants entered the United States illegally through Southwest border ports of entry as “known fugitives.” The migrants entered the country without screening or documentation.
According to a Customs and Border Protection report, about 194,000 migrants crossed the Southwest border as “fake fugitives” in the first 8 1/2 months of fiscal year 2024, Fox News reporter Bill Melgin wrote in a social media post. Last week, the average was 500 per day, according to the report. Breitbart Texas confirmed the figure with a senior U.S. Customs and Border Protection source.
What’s new: According to CBP sources and internal CBP data I checked, at least 194,000 escapes have been recorded at the southern border since fiscal year 2024 began on October 1, averaging more than 500 per day over the past week. The El Paso and Tucson sectors have the highest number of escapes. El Paso… pic.twitter.com/cMrPw7OZt6
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 20, 2024
The El Paso area reported the highest number of escapes this year, according to the report. Officials told Fox News that nearly 62,000 migrants had entered the U.S. illegally without screening or identification, most of them from the Santa Teresa, New Mexico, area of operations.
The Tucson area trails with more than 54,000 people on the run.
Those migrants were arrested in addition to 180,723 people apprehended in the El Paso sector and 373,220 people apprehended in the Tucson sector, according to a CBP report reviewed by Breitbart Texas.
Since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, CBP reports have recorded more than 1.8 million fugitives, according to Fox News.
Fugitive migrants are an estimate of the number of migrants who are observed crossing the border but not apprehended. Many are detected by Border Patrol agents who are on the ground making these observations. Others are observed crossing by photographers or other detection devices but no agents are available to apprehend them. Still others are part of a larger group, only a portion of which is apprehended.
Randy Clark Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as Chief of the Law Enforcement Operations Division, where he led operations for nine Border Patrol stations in the Del Rio Sector, Texas. Follow him on Twitter: @RandyClarkBBTX.
Bob Price Price is deputy editor and senior news contributor for Breitbart Texas Border Team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a reporter for Fox 26 Houston. What is your argument? Sunday Morning He also serves as chairman of the talk show. Blue Wonder Cancer Care Products.
