More than 62,000 undocumented immigrants evaded Border Patrol agents in March

More than 62,000 undocumented successfully evaded Border Patrol agents in March, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sources cited by Fox News. The astounding figure amount to an average of 2,000 migrants a day who made it through the border. 

In the Fiscal Year 2022, which began on Oct. 1, more than 300,000 “gotaways” or migrants who got past agents were reported, according to the same sources. The whole Fiscal Year 2021 saw around 400,000 gotaways. 

Authorities are able to identify gotaways through cameras, sensors, and other means, including smoothing out the surface of a dirt road to observe foot prints later on. 

The increase in the numbers of gotaways show how overwhelmed Border Patrol agents are as the number of migrants trying to enter the U.S. has increased in recent years. 

U.S. authorities have intercepted almost one million undocumented migrants so far in FY 2022, compared to 1.7 million in the entire FY 2021, Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said at a border security conference on Tuesday.

"Probably in the next two or three days we’ll get over a million encounters or apprehensions along the southwest border," Ortiz added. 

Border Patrol agents are expecting an increase in the number of migrants attempting to cross the border in coming months as the Biden administration allegedly plans to end Title 42 on May 23, a measure implemented to allow agents to turn away migrants at the border to prevent the spread of COVID-19. 

Title Trump administration implemented Title 42 in March 2022. In February, around 55% of the 164,973 migrants encountered at the border were returned under the measure. 

"We are expecting to get wrecked," one Border Patrol agent told Fox News.