Border officials count 599,000 'gotaway' migrants in Fiscal Year 2022: source
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There were at least 599,000 migrants who crossed the southern border but were not apprehended by U.S. officials, a Customs and Border Protection source told Fox News.
These numbers represent those migrants have been observed on cameras or detected via sensors, footprints or other means, but were never apprehended because of a lack of manpower. Bill Melugin currently serves as a national correspondent for FOX News Channel based out of the Los Angeles bureau.
The number of gotaways in FY2022 – which spans from Oct. 1, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2022 – is up drastically from the year before. In April, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas told the House Judiciary Committee that there were 389,155 gotaways at the border in FY2021.
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