Illegal migrant 'gotaways' plummet to new lows under Trump's border crackdown
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The amount of unauthorized migrants who manage to cross the border without getting apprehended has hit a record low due to President Trump’s stringent measures.

Each day, border agents are spotting an average of 77 illegal migrant “gotaways,” according to Fox News. Border Patrol agents use surveillance cameras or other surveillance methods to track such crossings.

During the height of the border crisis under the Biden administration, an average of more than 1,800 illegal migrant gotaways were recorded sneaking through each day.

That marks a 95% drop.

Between October 2022 and September 2023, more than 670,000 illegal migrant gotaways were known to have made it across the border without getting collared.

One Border Patrol source told The Post “the goal” now is to reach “zero apprehensions and zero gotaways.”

Some migrants, also, are still managing to get across the border without ever being detected.

“We have the manpower to do our job again so the numbers make sense but then again there are still a lot of gotaways that are never reported,” said the source.

Since President Trump’s return to the White House, the Border Patrol has seen 5,889 gotaways across all US borders, according to Fox.

Border agents caught roughly 8,300 migrants crossing the southern border illegally, marking the lowest number in the agency’s recent history.

The latest apprehensions mark a 94% decrease from February 2024, when border agents caught more than 140,000 illegal migrants at the US-Mexico border, according to federal data.

Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Pete Flores attributed the new lows to Trump’s border security measures, which have ended the problematic “catch and release” policy.

“At the direction of the administration, we remain unwavering in our mission to prioritize American safety, secure the border, and enforce consequences for those who violate United States law,” Flores said in a recent statement.

In response to low migration levels at the southern border, the feds have moved to close several Border Patrol processing facilities.

But while things dry up along the frontlines, ICE has been busy conducting mass deportation raids across the country and has already made more than 32,000 arrests since Trump took office, leading the agency to “max out” on its capacity, according to senior agency officials.

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