There's no good way to spin these numbers, none at all:
Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 210,000 illegal immigrants at the southern border in October, according to preliminary numbers obtained by the Federation for American Immigration Reform that show yet another rise in the level of chaos along the U.S.-Mexico boundary.
Agents tallied another 86,796 "known gotaways" — migrants that they spotted crossing, and know they weren't able to apprehend. That's believed to be the highest number ever detected and paints an even grimmer picture of what's going on at the border.
In parts of Arizona, agents have reported missing roughly as many migrants as they managed to catch.
210,000 illegal immigrants apprehended at the southern border. 87,000 illegal immigrants spotted but not detained as they crossed into America. In October alone!
Border patrol agents trying to manage the flow of illegal immigration like:
Maybe telegraphing to the whole world that our border policy was gonna be basically wide open for four years — maybe that wasn't a great idea!
The 209,664 illegal border jumpers is up more than 30% compared to October 2021, when agents tallied 159,113 apprehensions. And it trounces the Trump years, when roughly 69,000 were caught in October 2020, and just 35,000 were nabbed in October 2019.
