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November 6, 2023

Borders are “real or artificial lines that separate geographic areas,” according to National Geographic. They describe the purpose of borders – “to keep out invaders,” to “keep citizens in,” or to “protect resources.”

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How is the U.S. border doing on these accounts?

Who is coming into America? Are we being invaded? What about American resources? I don’t mean minerals or timber, but taxpayer-funded resources such as food, shelter, clothing, education, and health care.

Our border is not keeping anyone in, especially virtue-signaling celebrities promising to leave America if a Republican is elected. Cher promises to leave America if Donald Trump is reelected in 2024. She also planned to leave America if George W. Bush was elected in 2020, and two decades later she is still here. The beat goes on, as she sang with Sonny.

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Since President Biden took office in early 2021, the Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) has “encountered” almost 8 million border crossers, the majority young military aged males. In August alone, that number was 232,972, an annualized rate of 3 million migrants a year.

“Encounters” are only part of the story. How many snuck through without being encountered? Those are called “gotaways”. CBP reports 1,000 “known gotaways” per day.

As Fox News notes, “That means more than 1,000 individuals were seen or detected by Border Patrol agents but not apprehended per day this month. “

1,000 per day? That’s 365,000 per year, more than half the population of Wyoming. If you use the figure of 8 million known migrants during the Biden presidency, that’s more than the population of all but the 12 most populous U.S. states.

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How many were undetected? That number is unknowable but the Center for Immigration Studies estimates somewhere between 50 and 68 percent of illegal border crossers are caught. How can they be sure?

How reliable is that number? How can they know what they can’t even measure? What if far fewer are caught? You don’t know what you don’t know.