Reminder: The Biden admin recorded a staggering 670,674 known gotaways in fiscal year 2023 alone, according to data I obtained from CBP via a FOIA request last year. Thats an average of 1,800+ per day.
Trump’s current average of 132 per day, assuming it held, would be about 48,000 in a year. That would be the lowest number, by far, in at least 15 years.
Still very early into this new Trump admin, but a snapshot of where we are right now.
Statement to FOX from senior DHS source:
“Delivering consequences has results. Illegal crossings are down, gotaways are down. Criminal prosecutions are on the rise. Daily reports of large groups in Mexico, Guatemala, turning back south and surrounding to authorities requesting to go home and we have only just begun. Policy matters.”
Bill Melugin