CV NEWS FEED // Newly revealed federal government data show there were about five times more “gotaways” at the border in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 than in FY 2020 – the last fiscal year before President Joe Biden assumed office.
“Gotaways” refers to people who illegally enter the country but whom U.S. law enforcement fail to detain. In FY 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recorded a staggering 670,674 gotaways – almost exactly quintuple the 136,808 the agency had documented in FY 2020 when former President Donald Trump was in the White House.
FOX News national correspondent Bill Melguin stated that he obtained the internal CBP data via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request he made in October.
The information “reveals 13 years of known gotaways data at the border, showing gotaways have ‘exploded’ under the Biden admin compared to the Trump [and] Obama years,” Melugin wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday afternoon. “This is the first time these numbers have ever been revealed.”
“For perspective, in the decade of FY 2010 through FY 2020 under both Obama [and] Trump, CBP recorded over 1.4 million known gotaways,” Melguin added in his X post.
“In the three years of FY 2021 through FY 2023, CBP recorded over 1.6 million known gotaways” or “illegal aliens seen or detected via cameras, sensors, footsign, etc, but are never apprehended.”
In the 2010s, the fiscal year that reported the most gotaways was FY 2013 – with 171,663.
In FY 2021 – split between the Trump and Biden presidencies – CBP recorded 387,398 gotaways. In each of the two complete fiscal years under the Biden administration, CBP recorded over 600,000 gotaways.
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“So far in FY 24, which began in October, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sources have told Fox News separately there have been more than 175,000 gotaways,” Melugin and FOX’s Adam Shaw wrote in a report published Friday afternoon.
“Officials have regularly expressed concern about the numbers crossing without being encountered, even though it is a relatively small number compared to the more than 1.3 million migrants encountered this fiscal year,” Melugin and Shaw added.
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