Shocking 3.8 million migrants have entered US since Biden took office — 1.5 million sneaked in and are still here
A jaw-dropping 3.8 million people have entered the United States through its borders since President Joe Biden took office in 2021 — nearly half of whom slipped into the country illegally and were never caught.
Over the last three years, 2,345,600 people have been granted Notices to Appear (NTAs) before an immigration court, according to figures compiled by Syracuse University’s TRAC immigration database.
NTAs are issued to people who arrive on US soil, hand themselves in to Border Patrol and claim asylum. If they are deemed to potentially have a case, they are assigned a hearing — often years in advance — where a judge will determine if they can remain in the country or will be deported. The filings provide an accurate picture of the number of migrants entering the country.
Over 1.23 million of those NTAs were issued in the Department of Homeland Security’s financial year 2023 alone, which runs from October 1 to September 30.
Those numbers are far from the full picture of people entering the country. Over the past three years more than 1.5 million so called “gotaways” — those who Customs and Borde Protection estimate have made it across the border into the country with being detected or caught — and those numbers have also steadily been increasing year-by-year.
In May 2023, the US Border Patrol reported at least 530,000 gotaways for the current fiscal year — just shy of the record-breaking 600,000 reported by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in all of the previous year, and eclipsing the 389,000 reported in 2021.
The year’s most up-to-date gotaway numbers remain unclear. US Border Patrol did not have the figures on hand when contacted by The Post, and the DHS did not respond to requests for comment by the time of publication.
Though there are less than ten days left in the fiscal year, the total numbers are far from settled as migrant arrivals continue to climb by the day.
Just over 180,000 NTAs were issued in August — a 19% increase over the previously record-breaking 151,910 issued in July.
The number of cases has completely overwhelmed the court system, leading to a nearly 2.7 million backlog in Immigration Court cases still pending, according to TRAC.
After crossing the border, the migrants have been dispersed across all fifty states, but in the past year four states have borne the brunt of the crisis — Texas with 170,475 people California with 165,186, Florida at 152,048, and New York with 145,690.
