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Fox News reporter Bill Melugin shared internal data from Customs and Border Protection Thursday morning, revealing that the number of “gotaways” at the border has plummeted to record lows since President Trump’s inauguration.
In a post on X, Melugin announced:
SCOOP: Border Patrol’s nationwide recorded gotaways have plummeted to a stunningly low daily average of just 77 over the last 21 days, according to internal CBP data we’ve reviewed. President Biden averaged 1,837 gotaways per day in fiscal year 2023 at the height of the crisis, totaling 670,674 for the year.
President Trump has had 5,889 recorded nationwide gotaways since his first full day in office on January 21st, according to the data. Nationwide includes southern, northern, and coastal borders.
Nationwide gotaways data for the last three weeks:
February 20th – 100
February 21st – 62
February 22nd – 77
February 23rd – 79
February 24th – 68
February 25th – 110
February 26th – 95
February 27th – 77
February 28th – 60
March 1st – 81
March 2nd – 83
March 3rd – 80
March 4th – 68
March 5th – 67
March 6th – 85
March 7th – 88
March 8th – 59
March 9th – 49
March 10th – 76
March 11th – 100
March 12th – 59
Daily average 2/20 – 3/12 : 77
SCOOP: Border Patrol’s nationwide recorded gotaways have plummeted to a stunningly low daily average of just 77 over the last 21 days, according to internal CBP data we’ve reviewed. President Biden averaged 1,837 gotaways per day in fiscal year 2023 at the height of the crisis,…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) March 13, 2025
Independent journalist Auden B. Cabello asked, “Do you have data on nationalities? I’m assuming they’re mainly Mexican nationals.”
Melugin replied: “Don’t have breakdown on that but what I’ve been hearing from Border Patrol contacts in multiple sectors is the give ups are largely gone and their traffic is mostly Mexican & northern triangle evaders now.”
Don’t have breakdown on that but what I’ve been hearing from Border Patrol contacts in multiple sectors is the give ups are largely gone and their traffic is mostly Mexican & northern triangle evaders now.
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) March 13, 2025
“All we needed was a new President,” the White House’s Rapid Response 47 team quipped.
All we needed was a new President https://t.co/LuOWt9h2r3
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 13, 2025
Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies posted a video from the El Paso area on Tuesday and wrote, “Decimated by the New Trump Border: RUNNERS AND GOTAWAYS TOO. “We have some zero days now” a Border Patrol spokesman in El Paso sector tells me. Hundreds a day for years used to “getaway”through this stretch of old fence near Santa Teresa NM. Now look:”
Decimated by the New Trump Border: RUNNERS AND GOTAWAYS TOO. “We have some zero days now” a Border Patrol spokesman in El Paso sector tells me. Hundreds a day for years used to “getaway”through this stretch of old fence near Santa Teresa NM. Now look: pic.twitter.com/j44bL3m5h3
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) March 11, 2025
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