U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released operational statistics Saturday for fiscal year 2023 showing just over two million total apprehensions of illegal aliens within the last 12 months.
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From Oct. 1, 2022, to Sept. 30, 2023, CBP reports a total of 2,063,692 enforcement actions against migrants entering the country illegally — just shy of the 2.2 million apprehensions during FY 2022.
Apprehensions refer to the temporary detainment and processing of migrants who are not lawfully in the U.S. which may or may not result in an arrest.
Those two million enforcement actions do not include migrants who entered the U.S. through an official port of entry or who claim legal status under certain parole programs expanded by the Biden Administration.
That cohort accounts for another approximately 1.1 million migrants entering the country.
Through the end of September 2023, over 240,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans were granted parole under the expanded parole program announced by President Joe Biden in January.
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In September alone, U.S. Border Patrol recorded over 218,000 encounters between ports of entry along the southwest border.
“In response to high rates of encounters across the southwest border in September, CBP surged resources and personnel,” Troy A. Miller, a senior CBP official, said in a Saturday press release. “CBP will continue to remain vigilant, making operational adjustments as necessary and enforcing consequences under U.S. immigration law.”
“The supplemental funding request announced yesterday would provide critically needed additional resources including additional CBP agents and officers to support our essential missions: from border and migration management, to countering fentanyl and keeping dangerous drugs out of our communities,” Miller said.
On Friday the Biden Administration requested funding from Congress to hire 1,300 additional Border Patrol agents for FY 2024, 375 additional immigration judge teams, 1,000 CBP officers aimed at countering fentanyl trafficking, and 1,600 asylum officers to speed up the processing of asylum claims.
The Biden Administration also requested funds to award additional grants to local governments and non-profits to give migrants recently released from DHS custody food and shelter, and is working to expand lawful pathways of entry for refugees and migrants seeking to enter the U.S.
The CBP report does not include the number of “gotaways” — those migrants entering the country illegally who managed to successfully sneak past Border Patrol agents, though in May then-CBP Chief Raul Ortiz estimated that there had been 530,000 “gotaways” since the beginning of FY 2023 in October 2022.
The agency also reported the seizure of more than 27,000 pounds of fentanyl in FY 2023 — up from 14,600 in FY 2022 and up more than 800 percent from 2019.
Over the 12 month period, between ports of entry Border Patrol agents encountered a total of 172 non-U.S. citizens who were in the Terrorist Screening Dataset — more commonly referred to as the “watchlist” of known or suspected terrorists and their associates who may pose a potential threat to the U.S.
During that same period, Border Patrol agents encountered 484 individuals of all nationalities on the terror watchlist at ports of entry along the northern border.
According to data uncovered by Fox News earlier this month, thousands of “special interest aliens” from Middle Eastern countries have been stopped at the southern border since 2021, including 6,386 nationals from Afghanistan, 3,153 from Egypt, 659 from Iran, 538 from Syria, and 164 from Lebanon.
Phew! Thousands of “special interest aliens” [Islamic jihadists] were stopped at the border. We’re safe now.
“Apprehensions refer to the temporary detainment and processing of migrants who are not lawfully in the U.S. which may or may not result in an arrest.”
…total BS statement. They are not apprehended, they are signed in. They are not migrants, they are illegal aliens, who are in fact breaking US laws. 99.8% are not arrested, and most will never see inside the ‘asylum court’. It’s an invasive force of mostly young men!
We can write, email, call, our elected officials and demand they close the borders! We can protect our homes, etc. If one is a Christian, I believe we can also pray, believing this is a spiritual battle, and believe that Our God is Most High and that He rules in the affairs of man. He is waiting for our cooperation with HIM!
If there are any bible believing Christians reading this post, please by faith, declare the following:
• Judgment Against Terrorist Cells in US ~ October 18, 2023 Prov.8:36 But he who fails to find me or sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love and court death!
To those who plan harm/death or destruction and belong to terrorist “sleeper” cells in America, Hear the Word of the Lord Almighty that you might heed, turn and be saved from utter destruction:
The wicked, those who love violence, God hates with a passion. (Ps 11:5 NIV) There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to Him, including hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, and feet that are quick to rush into evil…(Prov 6:16-18 NIV)
You who are hiding now in the shadows and waiting to spill innocent blood are really just hastening your own destruction! By giving in to your sinful desires, you set yourself up to be ambushed (Prov 1:18 VOICE)
You hide in the shadows to shoot at the innocent; [you devise plans to] shoot at them without warning and without any fear. You persist in your evil purpose and plan in secret to lay your traps. And you say, “Who will see us?” You plot your offense with precision and say, “Now we have the perfect crime.”…But without hesitation the True God will shoot at you; His arrow will surely wound you. He will use your very own words to bring you to destruction and all who see will be appalled at what happens to you. (Ps 64:4-8 VOICE)
Nothing is covered up that won’t be discovered; nothing is hidden that won’t be exposed (Luke 12:2 VOICE)
God arises; and you, His enemies are scattered; you, His foes flee before Him. He blows you away like smoke; as wax melts before the fire, you wicked ones perish before God. (Ps 68:1-2 NIV) Almighty God, Lord of Angel Armies, consume them in Your wrath, consume them till they are no more. Then it will be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over [America]. (Ps 59:13 NIV)
AMEN