DEL RIO, Texas—Border Patrol agents along the southern border apprehended more than 7,500 illegal aliens per day in May, according to provisional Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data obtained by The Epoch Times. The average daily apprehension rate in January was 4,700.
Agents from Brownsville, Texas, to San Diego, California, apprehended 232,628 illegal border crossers in May, the highest monthly total in at least 23 years.
A further 34,547 individuals—also known as “gotaways”—were detected illegally entering the United States, but weren’t apprehended as they headed into the interior. It’s impossible to estimate how many illegal aliens entered and weren’t detected….