There were nearly 600,000 gotaways in FY 2022. Only four months into FY 2023, CBP reports that there have been 293,993 known gotaways since October 1. Gotaways are illegal immigrants who run from Border Patrol agents but are spotted with other forms of surveillance.

That number averages 2,450 a day in the last 120 days. Gotaways are on pace to rack up unprecedented numbers this fiscal year. Border Patrol officials are worried because they don’t know who these people are, where they are from, or where they are going in the interior of the United States.

NEW: CBP sources tell FOX News there have been 293,993 Known Gotaways so far this FYTD23 – that means 2,450/day in the past 120 days since the FY began on Oct 1st @FoxNews

— Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) January 28, 2023

Tom Homan, a former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director, warns that the number should scare the hell out of every American.

In fiscal 2022, there were nearly 600,000 gotaways. There were 389,155 gotaways at the border in fiscal 2021, and fiscal 2023 is on track to easily outpace those numbers. Last week, agents told Fox News there have been more than 1.2 million gotaways during the Biden administration.

Homan says the illegal immigrants are gotaways because they do not want to be fingerprinted when they are apprehended by Border Patrol agents. They are gang members, sexual predators, and other criminals. Some smuggle fentanyl. Homan said it isn’t all gotaways but that is the reason many don’t take advantage of Biden’s giveaway program and turn themselves in.

Biden is falsely boasting about border security and lower numbers of illegal aliens by touting the success of his new parole program. It’s a false claim because the lower numbers are only for migrants from four countries – Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua. Illegal immigrants from over 160 countries try to enter the U.S. Migrants from all over the world are trying to cross the southern border. Biden’s humanitarian parole program is disliked by both Republicans and Democrats. Twenty red states have sued the administration to end the program.

The Biden administration considers the humanitarian parole program a good alternative to Title 42, which is likely soon to be halted. The problem red states see with the program is that it allows 30,000 migrants each month to come into the country. A year’s total is a crazy high number. They will be ineligible for asylum if they pass through a third country without claiming asylum there. The program is ill-planned and confusing. As with other big ideas from Team Biden, it was announced without much in the way of details.

The twenty red states that have sued the administration say the parole program is a breach of the Administrative Procedure Act. It “goes beyond congressional direction that limits parole to case-by-case situations.” The 30,000 per month limit violates those regulations.

The Biden administration wants you to think the program is working. They claim the number of illegal migrants from those four countries has dropped by 97%. We’ll see how the January numbers shake out when they are released in February. Team Biden thinks the numbers are on track to be the lowest since the beginning of the Biden border crisis in February 2021.

Governor Abbott announced Friday that Operation Lone Star continues its work to secure the border and stop the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and people into Texas. It is also interdicting transnational criminal behavior between ports of entry. He also released a tally of the number of migrants sent to sanctuary cities by migrant buses.

Texas has also bused more than 9,100 migrants to our nation’s capital since April, over 5,200 migrants to New York City since August 5, more than 1,500 migrants to Chicago since August 31, and more than 890 migrants to Philadelphia since November 15.

Abbott stressed that the Biden parole plan is illegal. Texas filed the lawsuit that nineteen other red states joined.

“What the Biden Administration is doing is flat-out contrary to federal law,” said Governor Abbott. “Federal law does not allow this mass parolee process—it requires a president, the executive branch, to issue parole on only a case-by-case basis. So, the State of Texas filed a lawsuit to put a stop to this program by the Biden Administration because it is clearly, unequivocally, against the law.”

DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo that the Biden border crisis shows no sign of easing. It is expected to only get worse as spring approaches.

“The gotaways have always been concerning to us, because these are the individuals who have been able to sneak by law enforcement and have made it into the interior, and we don’t know where they are at,” said Lt. Olivarez. “We’ve encountered individuals on ranches who are gang members and those with criminal histories of sex crimes and other violent criminal acts. This border crisis is not slowing down.”

Biden will soon announce his decision to run for re-election. He wants to look like he is doing something about the southern border after two years of ignoring it. It’s too little, too late. The only thing that will get the situation under control is to reinstate the Trump policies that resulted in the lowest number of illegal immigrants in decades. He’s too pig-headed to do that. Trump was right and it’s more than Biden is able to admit.