Border agents have collared more than 5,000 illegal-alien criminals so far in fiscal 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reported, a figure that exceeds the totals for all of fiscal 2020 and 2019, and is almost 75 percent of the two years combined.
And at the rate agents are catching the hardened criminals, the total for this year will also exceed 2018 and 2017.
The figure is consistent with the massive invasion of illegals at the nation’s frontier with Mexico. Since October, the beginning of the fiscal year, agents have apprehended more than 550,000 illegals.
More than 170,000 were apprehended in March alone, and more than 130,000 illegals, some of them probably criminals, have slipped by agents and are so-called got aways.
The Numbers
Apprehensions in 2021 thus far are 5,108, a 106-percent increase over last year’s 2,438 — again, a figure for the full year.
If the rate of 28 apprehensions per day — about 840 per month — continues through September 30, the total of criminals apprehended will likely exceed 10,000.
That will be the highest total since 2016, when the number was 12,842. In 2017, the figure dropped to 8,531.
One sign of the deluge agents face comes from the Rio Grande Valley Border Sector. Agents there caught 1,625 as of April 13, CBP reported. That’s a 380-percent increase over the same time last year.
Chart 1 Google DocsOther Numbers
The increase in criminal apprehensions is hardly a surprise given the surge of penniless “migrants” pouring into the country faster than seawater swamping the Titanic.
As The New American reported last week, through March, border agents had already apprehended 569,879 illegals, a number that exceeded by about 25 percent the total for all of 2020. That number was 458,088.
Almost 426,000 of this year’s total are single adults.
Agents apprehended 172,331 illegals in March alone.
As of March 31, border agents were apprehending 5,559 illegals every day. If that surge has continued, agents have collared another 83,385 for a total of 652,264.
If the rate is the same as it was for the first six months — 3,125 — then agents have apprehended another 46,875, and the total through today is 614,754.
Given that the surge has risen every month since October, Americans have no reason to believe the rate has decreased.
If the number of apprehensions jumps another 70 percent in April, as it did from February to March, agents will apprehend almost 293,000. That’s almost 9,800 per day.
As of late March, as TNA reported, illegals were slipping by border agents at a rate of 900 a day. At the time, the total for the fiscal year was 130,000, a number that is likely closing on 150,000.
Question is, how many of the got aways are criminals? About 0.9 percent of the illegals caught so far are convicts.
Using that figure suggests that about 1,300 criminals have eluded capture to rape, rob, and perhaps even murder Americans.
Crime Breakdown
CBP also broke down the crimes for which the illegals were convicted. Though most were repeat border jumpers, more than 900 were dope fiends or traffickers and more than 800 were drunk drivers. Almost 600 were convicted of assault and battery or domestic assault. Another nearly 400 were robbers, burglars, and thieves.
Chart 2 Google DocsAlmost 300 were sex fiends. Just three were convicted of homicide or manslaughter.
In March alone, border agents caught at least 18 sex offenders, TNA reported last week. The San Diego Border Sector’s apprehensions in that category has, like the apprehension of criminals in general, exceeded last year’s total.
H/T: National Pulse
