As many as 3.8 million people have entered the United States through its borders since President Joe Biden took office in 2021 — nearly half of whom slipped into the country illegally and were never caught.
Over the past three years, 2,345,600 people have been served with Notices to Appear (NTAs) before immigration courts, according to figures compiled by Syracuse University’s TRAC immigration database.
NTAs are issued to people who arrive on US soil, turn themselves in to Border Patrol and claim asylum. If they are deemed to have a potential case, they are assigned a hearing – often years in advance – where a judge will determine whether they can remain in the country or be deported. Filings provide an accurate picture of the number of immigrants entering the country.
More than 1.23 million of those NTAs were issued in the Department of Homeland Security’s 2023 financial year alone, which ran from October 1 to September 30.
Those numbers are far from the full picture of people entering the country. Over the past three years, more than 1.5 million so-called “tourists” — those who Customs and Border Protection estimates have crossed the border into the country by being detected or apprehended — and that number continues to rise year over year.
About 3.8 million people have crossed into the United States through its borders since President Joe Biden took office.Getty Images
More than 1.5 million so-called “tourists” have crossed into the US without arrest since Biden took office.AP
In May 2023, the US Border Patrol reported at least 530,000 escapees for the current fiscal year — just shy of the record-breaking 600,000 reported by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over the previous year, and surpassing the 389,000 reported in 2021.
This year’s most recent holiday numbers are still unclear. The US Border Patrol did not have figures when contacted by The Post, and DHS did not respond to a request for comment at the time of publication.
Although there are less than ten days left in the fiscal year, the total is still far from being settled as migrant arrivals continue to increase day by day.
Just over 180,000 NTAs were issued in August — a 19% increase over the previous record-breaking 151,910 issued in July.
Migrants line up in New York City. About 116,200 have been delivered to New York City since spring 2022, said City Hall Seth Gottfried
The number of migrants sneaking through the border without being apprehended in 2023 is likely to break AP’s record
The number of cases has completely overwhelmed the court system, leaving a backlog of nearly 2.7 million Immigration Court cases pending, according to TRAC.
After crossing the border, immigrants have spread across all fifty states, but in the past year four states have borne the brunt of the crisis – Texas with 170,475, California with 165,186, Florida with 152,048, and New York with 145,690.
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