The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have encountered over 276,000 migrants in December, sources told Fox News.
September held the previous record with 269,735 encounters.
The CBP defines encounters as migrants who meet border agents at ports of entry either physically or through the CBP One app.
The number does not include gotaways, which are migrants officials see but do not contact. It obviously does not include those no one sees.
We still have two days left in December.
More from Fox News:
It means that since the new fiscal year began on Oct. 1., there have been more than 760,000 migrant encounters at the southern border, making the first quarter of FY 24 the highest quarter on record. Meanwhile, there have been 82,000 known getaways since Oct. 1. There were over 9,400 encounters in the last 24 hours, with over 8,000 resulting in a release with a Notice to Appear.It caps a year at the southern border where multiple records have been repeatedly smashed, and where Border Patrol have consistently been overwhelmed by the numbers they are seeing.
One official told Fox News that the government has removed 400,000 between May and the end of November.
The entire fiscal year of 2019 had 400,000.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, and Mexican President Andres Manuel López met last week even though Mexico has no incentive to end the migration to America.
Amnesty came up because of course: “The delegations also discussed the benefits of regularizing the situation of Hispanic migrants who have been undocumented for several years and the DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] beneficiaries, who are a vital part of the US economy and society.”
Mexico is not going to help.
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