President Biden’s administration is already on pace to break records for border encounters at the Southwest land border for the third year in a row, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics.
These numbers are unfortunately illustrated in Arizona, where Tucson-area agents arrested approximately 313,000 illegal immigrants in the first five months of fiscal year 2024 alone.
To put this number in perspective, in the first five months of fiscal year 2024, the total number of encounters in the Tucson sector for all of 2023 (373,625) have already been compromised. As Blaze News previously reported, that number was 251,984 in 2022.
John Modlin, U.S. Border Patrol Tucson District Patrol Chief, reported 12,200 arrests in the first week of March 2024 alone.
This included 19 cases of human smuggling.
according to Breitbartthe sector grew by 170% compared to the same period in 2023.
Despite declining encounter rates at the Southwest Land Border in January 2024, official CBP data It showed the Biden administration is on pace to easily set a new record for the number of land border contacts in a single year.
In the first four months of fiscal year 2024, starting in October 2023, there were approximately 241,000, 242,000, 300,000, and 175,000 illegal encounters, respectively. With an average of more than 240,000 incidents per month, the total number of border encounters is expected to reach a whopping 2,884,611 for the entire fiscal year, easily exceeding 2023.
President Biden’s record-setting 2023 total of 2,475,669 encounters along the Southwest border exceeded the previous record of 2,378,944, set in 2022.
By comparison, fiscal years 2022 and 2023 under President Biden each saw more border encounters than President Trump’s entire four-year term combined. Similarly, there were nearly 1.5 million more border encounters in 2022 and 2023 combined than in the entire eight years of President Barack Obama. historical data showed that.
Biden’s border, under Secretary of State Alejandro Mayorkas, also continues to consistently set monthly records. In fact, fiscal year 2023 ended with a record 269,735 encounters at his Southwest border.
The 46th president’s number of deportations pales in comparison to his predecessors. washington post He pointed out that the number increased to 142,000 in fiscal 2023. This brings the total number of deportees under the Biden administration to about 273,000.
However, President Trump deported 709,227 illegal aliens from 2018 to 2020.
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