Migrant encounters at southern border hit 1,000,000 mark for FY 2023, outpacing prior year: sources
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There have been more than one million migrant crossings at the U.S. southern border since October, multiple Customs and Border Protection sources tell Fox News this week.
There were more than 1.7 million encounters overall in FY 2021 and over 2.3 million in FY 2022. The first months of FY 2023 have outpaced those of the prior fiscal year. This time last year, numbers for FY22 through March 1 were 839,819 — well under the 1 million mark. Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.
Meanwhile, there have been 328,454 known "gotaways" — illegal immigrants who have evaded Border Patrol agents but have been detected on another form of surveillance. In FY 2022, there were nearly 600,000 gotaways. He can be reached at adam.shaw2@fox.com or on Twitter.