Washington, May 16 (FN Agency) Some 1.6 million migrants have evaded the authorities when entering the United States illegally through the country’s southern border under the Biden administration, Fox News reported, citing data it obtained from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The report said on Wednesday that between 2021 and 2023, CBP recorded that some 1.6 million migrants were able to evade authorities when they illegally crossed the US southern border.
In comparison to previous years, the number of migrants who illegally crossed the US-Mexico border freely between fiscal years 2010 and 2020 under both the Obama and Trump administrations was over 1.4 million, according to the report. Most asylum-seeking migrants coming to the US southern border turn themselves in to US Border Patrol agents immediately after entering the United States. US immigration officials have warned that migrants seeking to evade apprehension when illegally crossing the US-Mexico border likely have a criminal background that would lead to immediate deportation if they are apprehended by American authorities.
Illegal migration on the US southern border has gone through three consecutive record-breaking years since Biden took over the White House in January 2021, totaling nearly 8 million illegal encounters during that period, according to publicly available CBP data. Since October 2023, an estimated 1.5 million migrants have been apprehended for illegally crossing into the United States on the southern border, CBP data shows.