Daily Average of Known Gotaways at Southern Border Plummets, Down 93% From Biden Administration Highs

The daily average number of known gotaways — illegal migrants who successfully entered the U.S. without apprehension — at the southern border since the beginning of February has plummeted to just 132 per day, down 93% from the highest numbers when former President Joe Biden was in office, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) source.

During the Biden administration, Fox News submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for FY 2023 statistics and learned there were 670,674 known gotaways recorded that year, a jaw-dropping average of more than 1,800 per day.

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By Feb. 1, the number of migrants arriving at the southern border plummeted by 63%.

There were 7,287 migrant encounters at the southern border in the first seven days of the Trump administration, Jan. 20 through Jan. 26, with a daily average of 1,041 encounters a day.

That compares to 20,086 encounters a day during the final days of Biden’s presidency, Jan. 13-19.

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