Around 1.5 million illegal immigrants have been able to sneak across the border and remain the country under President Joe Biden, the U.S. Border Patrol chief told Congress on Wednesday.
Raul L. Ortiz told the House’s Homeland Security Committee on March 15 that Biden’s unwillingness to protect the border has opened the doors to around 1.5 million undocumented immigrants from the south, citing updated numbers.
Almost 6 million illegal immigrants have now entered and attempted to remain the United States in 2021 and 2022, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Of these, the latest figures show that 1.3 million so-called “gotaways” were spotted by Border Patrol’s agents and surveillance systems, plus an estimated 200,000 additional untracked immigrants, said Ortiz, who provided agency data….