Watch: In Just This One Area Along The Border, 104 Felons From Over 40 Different Countries Were Nabbed

By Seth Cutler | Thursday, 28 July 2022 05:15 AM
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Watch: In Just This One Area Along The Border, 104 Felons From Over 40 Different Countries Were Nabbed

Border Patrol agents in a single border sector apprehended over 100 illegal immigrants who are further convicted felons in a single week and migrants from more than 40 different nations — a snapshot of a raging and dangerous crisis at the southern border.

Border Patrol in Yuma Sector, Arizona, encountered over 5,600 migrants between July 17 and July 23 from 46 different counties, according to stats put out by Chief Patrol Agent Chris Clem.

He announced that 104 migrants apprehended were convicted felons, while 57 migrants were prosecuted for illegal entry, re-entry and smuggling. Agents further stopped nine smuggling cases and encountered over120 unaccompanied minors.

Over 200,000 migrant apprehensions each month for the last four months, a historic high. In June, there were 207,000 migrant encounters at the border, compared to just more than 189,000 the same period last year. Of those encounters, 79,652 migrants have been freed into the U.S.

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Thus far this fiscal year, there have been 8,354 arrests of individuals with criminal convictions, compared to 10,763 in the entirety of the fiscal year 2021 and 2,438 in the fiscal year 2020.

Yet those are only the migrants that Border Patrol agents have met, and not including those that have managed to sneak past overwhelmed agents.

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Fox News reported this week that there have now been more than half a million known "gotaways" at the border since the fiscal year 2022 started on Oct. 1 — an average of 55,000 a month.

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Per multiple Homeland Security sources, the U.S. is now at roughly 900,000​ known gotaways since the start of the fiscal year 2021, which is equivalent to a population bigger than the city of San Francisco getting across the border.

That number, too, is just the number of "known gotaways" — i.e. that have been picked up on cameras, sensors, etc., yet are never caught — and does not include those who were not sighted at all by Border Patrol.

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In the meantime, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas argued recently that the border is "secure."

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"Look, the border is secure," he stated at the Aspen Security Forum last week. "We are working to make the border more secure. That has been a historic challenge."

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The Biden administration has been concentrated on targeting "root causes" like climate change and poverty in Central America, which it states are driving the migrant disaster. Republicans have rather pointed to Biden administration policies — like narrowed interior enforcement and "catch-and-release" policies — which they say are pressing migrants to make the journey north.

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