Illegal entrants in 2023 approaching 1% of U.S. population

The arrival of illegal immigrants to the U.S. in 2023 will reach a new record of 2.7 million. This represents an increase of more than 400,000 people over the previous year. Since Joe Biden's arrival in the White House in 2021, the total number of entrants has reached 4.2 million.

This warning from Steven Kotpis, president of Princetown Police Advisors, having studied the data provided by the Border Patrol. This organization has already been correct in its forecasts for 2022, indicating that illegal immigrant encounters would exceed 2.3 million. The authorities have just made public that the calendar year closed with the arrival of 2,343,000 people in an improper situation. This represents an increase of more than 400,000 people over the previous annual record.

Monthly and annual records of illegal

After it became known that December set a new record for encounters with illegals in a month, Kotpis readjusted his initial forecasts for the current year. Last month, Border Patrol agents intercepted 221,181 immigrants, 50,000 more than the previous record, also achieved with Biden as president. The December figures far exceeded experts' expectations, including those of Princetown Police Advisors. One of the reasons is due to the uncertainty about the end of Title 42, scheduled for the 21st of the month, although it was finally extended by the Supreme Court.

According to Kotpis, "With December apprehensions exceeding expectations, we increase our calendar and fiscal year 2023 forecast for southwest border apprehensions to 2.7 million, which would represent a new record by 400,000 over the fiscal and calendar year 2022. These are truly mind-blowing numbers. Annual southwest border apprehensions are beginning to approach 1% of the total US population."

"Truly mind-blowing figures."

In addition, it should be noted that at least 88,000 illegals were detected as having managed to avoid the border patrol this month. In November, 73,000 successfully entered the US. To these figures must be added the 600,000 illegal aliens known to have eluded the Border Patrol during the last fiscal year.

Kotpis also points to another trend that worries him about the increase in the number of reported "inadmissibles." This term includes those who present themselves at official border crossings without proper documentation. There were 30,306 in December, double the previous record set in 2016 under the Obama administration. "In earlier times, inadmissibles were not let into the country, hence the term 'inadmissible'." The continuing, rapid and material rise in the inadmissibles count indicates that one can indeed enter the United States today at official crossing points without proper documentation."