Border authorities have already reportedly encountered more than a million illegal migrants since the fiscal year began in October, the soonest they have ever hit that milestone.
This year’s number is about 100,000 encounters higher than the 908,000 migrants border authorities encountered over the same period last year, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sources told Fox News.
BREAKING: CBP sources say…
Encountered more than 1 Million migrants since Oct 1 (FY24) – earliest to ever reach milestone. Last FY23, 909K at same time – difference of more than Sun's Super Bowl.
Notable: 19,600+ Chinese migrants so far this FY24… vs37k/FY23 total @FoxNews
— Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) February 7, 2024
Chinese migrants in particular have spiked, quickly becoming the fastest growing group of migrants crossing the border.
A total of more than 37,000 Chinese migrants were apprehended last fiscal year. This year, border authorities have already reportedly encountered about 20,000 since October or about 150 Chinese migrants per day.
Border crossings have continued to spike in recent months.
In December, authorities encountered 302,000 migrants at the border, the highest monthly total on record and the first time the total has ever topped 300,000.
Overall last year, 2.5 million migrants were apprehended crossing or trying to cross the southern border, according to the CBP.
Meanwhile, more than 96,000 “known gotaways,” migrants who were detected but not caught, have reportedly crossed the southern border since October 1.
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Meanwhile, Texas has sent at least 100,000 migrants to sanctuary cities including New York City, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., which are struggling to provide resources for them.
New York City is scrambling to metabolize the nearly 175,000 migrants who have arrived since spring 2022. Last week, a group of migrants was arrested, but then quickly released for allegedly beating NYPD officers near Times Square.
Denver is in the process of booting 800 families from overcrowded shelters this week.
A bipartisan border deal crumbled in the Senate on Wednesday after bleeding Republican support and facing criticism from former President Donald Trump, the GOP’s presidential frontrunner.
The $118 billion deal would have tightened asylum requirements, shut down the southern border if immigrant encounters hit certain levels, and sent billions of dollars to not only the border, but Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
On Monday, Trump said the “ridiculous” border bill is “nothing more than a highly sophisticated trap for Republicans to assume the blame on what the Radical Left Democrats have done to our Border, just in time for our most important EVER Election.”
“Don’t be STUPID!” Trump posted on Truth Social.
House Republicans also tried and failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the border crisis in a vote on Tuesday.
However, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) vowed Republicans will keep trying and successfully impeach Mayorkas despite the “setback.”