Let's squeeze in one last border crisis piece before the midterm elections, shall we? For months, we've been saying that the total of known got-aways under the Biden administration was close to one million -- and according to one new calculation, that number has now been surpassed. Since Biden took office, more than one million illegal immigrants have entered the country illegally without being encountered or detailed. That we know of. There remains an unknowable universe of 'got-aways' who were not detected by censors or cameras, who are not represented in this astronomical total. The border is not closed. The border is not secure. Anyone saying otherwise is brazenly lying.
An ongoing disgrace:
There have now been over 1 MILLION “gotaways”– who illegally crossed the border & escaped into the U.S. – since Biden took office. That’s a conservative estimate.
— Tommy Pigott (@TommyPigott) November 6, 2022
Every Senate Dem voted against hiring 18K Border Patrol agents, Title 42, & the border wall.https://t.co/bFifEwAR2e
There have now been over one million “gotaways” – people who illegally crossed the border and escaped into the U.S. – since Joe Biden took office. That is a conservative estimate. How did we get this number? By taking the gotaways number for October reported last night by The Washington Times combined with the number for FY 2022 previously reported by Fox News, monthly totals reported by Townhall, and daily gotaways estimates reported by CNN and The Washington Post.
BREAKING, from border sources, in October:1) 86,000 gotaways, 2) 27 dead migrants (those found by @CBP), 3) over 209,000 encounters & still counting. Big news - movement of numbers toward El Paso - roughly 53K with over 20K gotaways. #StandUpForAmerica #BorderCrisis
— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) November 4, 2022
Fox's Bill Melugin reported last night that the official number was a bit lower than that, but still stunningly high, with the new fiscal year off to an even worse start than last year's terrible start, as it pertains to this crisis:
Per the CBP sources, there were also at least 205,000 Border Patrol apprehensions of migrants between ports of entry during October. This does not include CBP port of entry encounters.
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) November 7, 2022
OCT FY'23 : 205,000
OCT FY'22: 159,113
OCT FY'21: 69,032
OCT FY'20: 35,402
OCT FY'19: 51,005
And per Melugin's reporting, some of the illegal immigrants seem to know exactly whom to thank:
NEW: “Joe Biden is the best!”
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) November 7, 2022
Over the weekend, we interviewed handfuls of migrants as they crossed illegally into the Normandy, TX area, with a majority of them telling us the border is “abierta” (open). Some had praise for President Biden, others aren’t worried about election. pic.twitter.com/EngZ2SGFMI
"Abierta." Many prominent Democrats, especially those serving at the national level, prefer to ignore this issue altogether. When they are forced to talk about it, they deny reality, blame Republicans for "inhumane" "stunts," and smear border patrol agents. One local Democrat, by contrast, has had enough. You probably haven't heard about this, have you?
The Dem mayor of Del Rio — a gay Hispanic military vet, seen as a rising star in Texas — abruptly quit. Why?
— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) November 4, 2022
Because, he said, Dems are “gaslighting” him, refusing to even acknowledge what’s happening at the border, much less do anything about it. https://t.co/V7YGWlnEuT pic.twitter.com/Geb0QNVJ82