Lt. Chris Olivarez on border crisis: This is the reality of the situation
Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Chris Olivarez speaks on the state of the southern border crisis on 'Your World.'
U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported over 230,000 border encounters in October, setting an all-time record for the stat.
October's numbers show a 1.3% increase over September, according to the CBP. Nearly 20% of those apprehended this month had tried to cross the border at least once before in the past 12 months. The border crisis has been a major problem under President Biden's administration, with several Republican governors taking drastic measures to address the issue.
Multiple CBP sources also told Fox News that the department saw roughly 64,000 "gotaways" in October, meaning roughly 2,000 migrants slipped past border patrols every day.
Biden's administration has insisted that the U.S.-Mexico border is "closed" despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
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YUMA, ARIZONA - AUGUST 06: Immigrants wait to be processed by the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the border from Mexico, with the U.S.-Mexico border barrier in the background, on August 6, 2022 in Yuma, Arizona. ((Photo by Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images))
migrants cross the US-Mexico border. (Fox News)
September itself also set a record with 227,000 border encounters.
The September data revealed the fiscal year 2022 ended with 2,378,944 migrant encounters, the highest ever recorded in a fiscal year. This figure does not include the 599,000 known "gotaways" that CBP sources told Fox News evaded capture in the fiscal year 2022.
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The Biden administration has repeatedly attempted to dismiss border surges as a yearly pattern. While the southern border has seen a pattern of increases in migration each spring, the surges in both 2021 and 2022 far outpaced previous years, and that pace only escalated throughout the year.
FEBRUARY 21: Asylum seekers from Colombia, Venzuela, and Cuba wait next to the USA border wall with Mexico, to be processed by CBP on February 21, 2022 in Yuma, Arizona, United States. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (Photo by Katie McTiernan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images | Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images )
"What is happening today, and I’d like to think it’s happening because I’m a nice guy, but it’s not – because it’s what happens every year," Biden said in March 2021.
Vice President Kamala Harris has also described the border as "closed," telling migrants firmly "Do not come" last year.
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Nevertheless, many of the migrants Fox News spoke to described the border as "abierta," or "open." Some of the migrants also praised Biden personally.
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