Bethany Blankley (Center Square)
More than 1.7 million aliens entered the United States illegally in the first six months of fiscal year 2024, the highest number for this period in U.S. history.
The 1,733,496 people who entered the country illegally during the first six months of fiscal year are more than 185,000 more than the 1,547,866 people who entered the country illegally during the first six months of fiscal year 2023.
According to the latest statistics, 246,432 illegal entries were reported nationwide in March, including 189,372 through the southwest border. CBP data.
CBP also processed 44,000 aliens arriving at ports of entry last month using the CBP One phone app. According to CBP data, from January 2023 through the end of March 2024, more than 547,000 foreign nationals used the app to successfully book appointments to present at ports of entry.
From January 5, 2023, through the end of March 2024, 404,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans were released on parole to the United States through a new program created by Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Among them were 86,000 Cubans, 168,000 Haitians, 77,000 Nicaraguans and 102,000 Venezuelans who CBP claims were “screened and authorized to travel.”
Mayorkas has been sued by more than two dozen state attorneys general over the app and parole program. House Republicans found the app and parole program illegal and cited them in the charges used to impeach him.
As was the case last March and every month, the majority of foreigners who entered the country illegally were unmarried adults.
More than 1 million unmarried adults (1,040,553) entered the United States illegally during the first six months of fiscal year 2024, according to CBP data. Their numbers were larger than the individual populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, and nearly equaled the population of Delaware.
In March, CBP agents seized 16% more fentanyl and 19.6% more heroin than in February.
In the first six months of fiscal year 2024, CBP agents seized 10,026 pounds of fentanyl.
Two milligrams of fentanyl is considered a lethal dose, equivalent to the weight of a mosquito. One pound of fentanyl, or 453,592 mg, is enough to kill 226,796 people.
This fiscal year through April 4, CBP agents seized enough fentanyl to kill more than 2.2 billion people.
This comes after CBP Tuscon Sector agents seized a record amount of money, most recently enough to kill nearly four billion people. The Center Square reported.
While much attention is focused on the southwest border, the number of illegal border crossers has surged along the northern border, where the most terrorists are being apprehended. In the first six months of fiscal year 2024, 91,408 people were apprehended crossing the border illegally, the most in U.S. history.
In fiscal year 2021, only 27,180 illegal border crossers were apprehended at the northern border. That number increased significantly to 109,535 in fiscal year 2022 and 189,402 in fiscal year 2023.
If these numbers continue on the same trajectory nationally, the number of illegal entries and fentanyl seizures in fiscal year 2024 is expected to surpass all other records from the previous fiscal year. CBP’s fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30.
The Biden administration has recorded a record number of arrests of illegal border crossers every year. A record 1.9 million illegal border crossers were apprehended in fiscal year 2021, the highest number in U.S. history at the time. This number excludes those who evaded arrest, known as fugitives.
This record was broken in fiscal 2022, with a new record of more than 2.7 million, and again in fiscal 2023, with more than 3.2 million, excluding escapees.
A record 11 million aliens have reportedly entered the United States illegally since fiscal year 2021, with 2 million of those reportedly fleeing. reported.
Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.
