Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) recently summarized the statistics of illegal immigration since the beginning of the Biden Administration in a recent op-ed. Below are excerpts from that article.
“Of the over 7.6 million illegals encountered by Border Patrol since January 2021, the number allowed to stay inside the U.S. is somewhere north of five million. But with the percentage of those allowed to stay now approaching 100 percent, if current trends hold, the total allowed to remain in the U.S. under the Biden Administration will reach ten million by next January.
“The U.S. has experienced surges of illegal immigration in the past, but these have been brought quickly under control by implementing policies to deter, block, detain, and deport illegal immigrants. Not this time. To put the current numbers in perspective, consider that Jeh Johnson, President Obama’s Director of Homeland Security, told MSNBC that in his time in office—when the number of illegal crossings was relatively low—he considered it bad if apprehensions exceeded 1,000 a day, because anything more than that ‘overwhelms the system.’ Over the past three years, apprehensions have averaged about 6,940 per day. . . .
“The reality is even worse, because these numbers do not include the people who entered the U.S. illegally without being apprehended—sometimes referred to as ‘gotaways’—a number the Border Patrol estimates but does not make public. That estimate over the past three years is two million, bringing the three-year total of illegal immigrants to ten million—a number equivalent to the population of Greater London or Greater Chicago.”
Read more at cis.org