BREAKING: Border officials count 599,000 'gotaway' migrants in Fiscal Year 2022: source
Fox News' Bill Melugin sat down with 'Fox News Sunday' host Shannon Bream to discuss the latest on the border crisis under the Biden administration.and evaded authorities in Fiscal Year 2022, 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.
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,Alejandro Mayorkas told the House Judiciary Committee that there were 389,155 gotaways at the border in FY2021.In total, that makes for nearly 1 million gotaways at the southern border since the beginning of FY2021.
Far fewer gotaways came through before then. According to former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott, who served in office under former President Donald Trump and