The first results are in regarding the illegal entry of aliens into the U.S. during Fiscal Year 2022, which ended September 30.
Breitbart News reported on October 1 the results obtained from an anonymous source in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Official numbers, which may differ slightly, are scheduled to be released later this month.
What for many months had been expected to be a record-setting year brought no surprises. During 2022, agents at the nine southwest border sectors apprehended more than 2.2 million migrants, a nearly 27 percent increase over the 1.7 million apprehensions in 2021. The busiest of the sectors was Del Rio in Texas, which saw the apprehension of 480,000 migrants, a whopping increase of nearly 85 percent over FY 2021. Just two years ago, the number of migrants apprehended in the Del Rio sector was only slightly more than 90,000.
The Rio Grande Valley Sector dropped to second place, with the apprehension of 468,000 aliens, down from 550,000 in FY 2021.
Although the Biden administration has abolished the Remain in Mexico policy and significantly reduced the numbers of illegals immediately deported under the CDC Title 42 guidelines, some illegals are being deported right away. Nevertheless, Yahoo News reported on October 2 that at least half of the 2.2 million in FY 2022 were admitted, pending adjudication of their asylum claims.
Those admitted temporarily as potential asylees are told to contact ICE once they reach their new homes in America, after which they are expected to show up for a hearing on their claim. Since the vast majority of aliens apprehended do apply for asylum, there is already a years-long backlog of 660,000 cases. Most of those who follow through with the ICE order (a minority) can expect to have their claims eventually rejected by an immigration judge. (In Atlanta’s immigration court, for example, about 97 percent of claims are rejected.) Once rejected, the asylum seeker is subject to deportation, but nowadays few need worry about that, since the current administration has shown little inclination to deport.
In addition, previously deported aliens often return multiple times until they are eventually admitted, often in the status of “humanitarian parolee.” America’s immigration policies are so loosely enforced that the persistent are generally rewarded.
And what of those illegals crossing our border last year who were not apprehended? By their very nature, the numbers of such “got-aways” are always unclear and any estimates are generally significant undercounts. The CBP source speaking with Breitbart News quoted an estimate of 604,000, way up from last year’s estimate of 500,000, though no one really knows. Each year’s got-aways join a huge army of aliens already in America, in effect constituting a multinational, multiracial unknown nation with a nation.
In summary, add the admitted 1.1 million asylum seekers to the estimated 600K got-aways and you have about 1,700,000 new non-citizen residents, all illegal but under little danger of being sent home.
Now we begin Fiscal Year 2023. If last month’s figures are any indication, this new fiscal year will certainly see more records set. The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that on each day in September, the CBP encountered between 7,300 and 7,500 illegals, the highest numbers for any September in history.
For more see Breitbart News and Yahoo News.