Back in June, I did a deep dive explaining why what I termed the "Got-away tsunami" that has been washing across the Southwest border since Joe Biden took office is the best measure of the decline in border security under this administration, but it's important to reiterate that statement given CBO's estimates.
CBP - both officers from the agency's Office of Field Operations at the Southwest border ports of entry and Border Patrol agents between those ports along the 1,954-mile boundary with Mexico - have had to deal with an unprecedented number of illegal aliens since President Biden's 2021 inauguration.
DHS's Office of Homeland Security Statistics recently published data on CBP's enforcement efforts at the Southwest border over the past 10 fiscal years.
It shows that total "Encounters" there - illegal entrants nabbed by Border Patrol agents plus aliens deemed inadmissible by OFO - rose from about 445,000 in FY 2015 to just fewer than 520,000 in FY 2018, and then to more than 977,000 in FY 2019.
That's the reason why CBP's family-unit encounters at the Southwest border jumped from about 40,000 in FY 2015 to 103,000 by FY 2016.
Overall encounters at the border dropped in FY 2017, after Trump came to office promising more border enforcement, but not encounters involving FMUs.
Predictably, once neither detention nor prosecution was a deterrent, the number of FMUs CBP encountered at the Southwest border surged to nearly 527,000 in FY 2019.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Congressional-Budget-Office-Estimates-860K-GotAways-FY-2023
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