{"id":8629,"date":"2024-01-28T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8629"},"modified":"2024-01-28T19:02:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T19:02:37","slug":"new-record-371000-illegal-border-crossers-in-december-most-in-us-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8629","title":{"rendered":"NEW RECORD: 371,000 Illegal Border Crossers in December, Most in US History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/more-than-370000-illegal-border-crossers-in-december-most-in-us-history\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/more-than-370000-illegal-border-crossers-in-december-most-in-us-history\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/pjimage-2021-03-29T145208.193.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Illegal Border Crossers Southwest Border Brian Hastings\" title=\"Illegal Border Crossers\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were 371,036 foreign nationals reported to have illegally entered the U.S. nationwide in December, the largest number for the month in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>There were 302,034 foreign nationals who illegally entered the southwest land border, with the majority, 249,785, being apprehended between ports of entry, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. By comparison, 73,414 illegal border crossers were apprehended at the southwest border in December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>There were 15,349 foreign nationals apprehended illegally entering at the northern land border last month, the highest for the month in U.S. history, according to the data. By comparison, there were 2,205 apprehensions at the northern border in December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The data excludes gotaways, those who illegally enter and intentionally evade capture by law enforcement, which CBP doesn\u2019t publicly report. When included, the totals are much higher. From Jan. 1, 2021, to Sept. 30, 2023, there were an estimated 1.7 million gotaways to have illegally entered the U.S., The Center Square exclusively reported. Ultimately, law enforcement officials say they have no idea how many gotaways there are in the U.S., or who or where they are.<\/p>\n<p>The overwhelming majority of illegal border crossers, including gotaways, are single adults, with the majority of them being single military age men, The Center Square has previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>Retired FBI counter intelligence leaders recently sounded the alarm, warning that these unvetted men pose a terrorist threat. They also said President Joe Biden\u2019s border policies have facilitated a \u201csoft invasion\u201d into the U.S. of military-age men coming from terror-linked regions, including China and Russia. \u201cIn its modern history the U.S. has never suffered an invasion of the homeland, and, yet, one is unfolding now,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to soon impeach him for failing to uphold his oath of office, as the House Committee on Homeland Security Committee Chairman has repeatedly argued, Mayorkas is \u201cderelict in his duty\u201d to protect the homeland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/more-than-370000-illegal-border-crossers-in-december-most-in-us-history\/ There were 371,036 foreign nationals reported to have illegally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8631,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8629\/revisions\/8631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}