Roughly 1.5 million migrants have sneaked across the border as President Joe Biden opened the door to many additional migrants, according to testimony from Raul L. Ortiz, Chief of U.S. Border Patrol.
I will tell you that the gotaway number is a number that for a long time was associated with [field inspections] … it was our agents out there actually cutting swaths of country and using, you know, footprints as an indicator as to what we were seeing out there. That was our situational awareness.
[We have] 385,000 gotaways so far this fiscal year [Since October 1]. We continue to refine that number. I’ve got to do a better job of accounting for the actual encounters … The number of gotaways has been increasing, according to data provided by the Republican National Committee:Ortiz’s estimate of 1.5 million gotaways is in addition to the 2.7 million migrants allowed through the border since January 2021.
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