Gotaways Are Surging; Mission Accomplished for Mayorkas?
April 14, 2023
Midway through Fiscal Year 2023, at least 400,000 illegal aliens have evaded capture at the southern border.
This “gotaway” figure, up 30 percent from the same period last year, must be considered a conservative estimate. Though the Border Patrol can count migrants who were detected but not detained, there are whole other groups of people who were neither seen nor captured.
In any event, human smuggling cartels increasingly like their odds of success.
Take Texas’ Del Rio Sector, for example. Border Patrol’s weekly recap for March 26-April 1 tallied 3,850 apprehensions and 2,242 known gotaways. During the month of March, agents detained some 24,000 migrants while reporting nearly 11,000 gotaways.
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2023/04/14/gotaways-are-surging-mission-accomplished-mayorkas
