More than 1.3 million immigrants got away at US-Mexico boundary: Border chief

Border Patrol It is aware that 1.3 million Immigrants Illegally crossed the U.S. Mexico border. They escaped arrest and their whereabouts remain unknown.

Raul Ortiz, the chief of Border Patrol, testified before the House Homeland Security Committee in McAllen Texas on Wednesday. He stated that agents had seen 385,000 noncitizens crossing the southern border since October 2022 but could not pursue them due to limitations related to other groups.

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This new number is in addition to the 318,112 illegal immigrant observed between January 2021 and President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Joe Biden In September, 2021, the end of fiscal 20201 was announced.

Around 599,000 “gotaways” they were recorded in 2022, for a total of 1,302,112 under the Biden administration.

Past history has not allowed the public to access Gotaway data, but they began being shared in 2020 by Rodney Scott (ex-Border Patrol Chief).

In an email sent Wednesday to supporters, the Republican National Committee denounced Ortiz’s admission.

“When Mayorkas and Biden insist the border is ‘secure,’ they are lying. Chief Ortiz told the Homeland Security Committee we do NOT have operational control of our border,” Tommy Pigott, RNC Rapid Response Director, wrote an email.

Pigott also criticised Democrats who were not on his side. I was not able to attend The South Texas field hearing. A hearing by the House Judiciary Committee at the Arizona border was also skipped by Democrats.

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The report was made by a top Democratic aide. Washington Examiner In the past, Republicans on the committee refused to attend hearings when Democrats held a majority in Congress. This was when they decided when and where hearings would be held. A single example of why Republicans didn’t show up is a Hearing on domestic terrorism Antisemitism in New Jersey, October 2022

“It is unfortunate that committee Republicans were not forthcoming about the planning of this hearing,” Bennie Thompson, a ranking member (D-MS), stated in a statement. “This is not how the committee should operate and its further proof that the extreme wing of the Republican Party has taken over. It’s clear now that this hearing was planned as a partisan political stunt from the start and there’s no way Democrats would legitimize it with our presence.”