This excludes those who illegally entered and evaded capture, known as gotaways. CBP doesn’t publicly report gotaway data. The Center Square first reported gotaway data in 2021 after obtaining it from a Border Patrol agent. In fiscal 2023, there were over 101,000 gotaways reported in California’s two sectors and nearly 413,000 apprehensions, The Center Square exclusively reported.

Fiscal 2024 gotaway data is forthcoming, but if trends continue as they have in the past, California’s total reported illegal border crossers, including apprehensions and gotaways, are expected to surpass 625,000 in fiscal 2024. That’s up from nearly 514,000 combined in fiscal 2023.

The data also excludes inadmissibles released into California through roughly a dozen parole programs created under the Biden-Harris administration that federal judges, roughly half of state attorneys general, and Congressional Republicans argue are illegal.

California shares the smallest international border with Mexico of the four southwest border states – 137 miles. It’s nearly evenly split in linear land mileage between the CBP sectors of El Centro and San Diego.

The San Diego Sector is the largest of the two sectors, covering nearly 57,000 square miles, including 931 miles of coastal border stretching to Oregon. It shares 60 linear miles with Mexico by land and 114 coastal miles along the Pacific Ocean. The area with the greatest foot traffic includes roughly 7,000 square miles that encompasses beaches, mesas, an inland mountain range, canyons and high desert.

The greatest number of apprehensions have historically been reported in the San Diego Sector. In fiscal 2024, San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended at least 324,260 illegal border crossers, representing a 40% increase from their fiscal year 2023 apprehensions of 230,941.

San Diego Office of Field Operations reported 183,890 encounters with illegal foreign nationals in fiscal 2024, according to the data.

Now retired San Diego Sector Chief Border Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke has testified before Congress about the hardships San Diego Sector agents faced resulting from what he described as Biden-Harris administration “open border policies.” He’s described the impact of having to close Border Patrol checkpoints when illegal entries peaked in July 2022 to roughly 16,000 knowing that miles of the border were left wide open and unpatrolled.

He’s also testified how agents were ordered not to report an alarming increase in “special interest aliens” and continue to grapple with unaccompanied minors believed to be drugged, smuggled and trafficked. California agents have also expressed alarm about the volume of fentanyl pouring through the sector as federal, state and local law enforcement officers have seized enough fentanyl in one year to kill billions of people.

In the El Centro Sector, Border Patrol agents apprehended 17,484 illegal border crossers in fiscal 2024. The sector lies in the Imperial Valley of Southern California and spans 71 linear miles along the U.S.-Mexico border. Much of it is remote and dangerous, including desert and mountainous terrain where summer heat regularly exceeds 120 degrees.

El Centro Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino has expressed alarm about unaccompanied children who agents rescue “from being exploited by smugglers. These criminals are not related to the children they smuggle. These traffickers go to extreme lengths to smuggle these children – giving them sleep aids to keep them quiet.”

El Centro Chief Border Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino also told members of Congress that a surge of more than 50,000 illegal border crossers in fiscal 2023 took agents away from their primary purpose to protect the homeland. “Any time there is a surge of individuals processing care, feeding and care of those individuals takes Border Patrol agents away from their primary job of preventing bad people and bad things from coming across the border,” Bovino said.

As Texas’ border security mission, Operation Lone Star, put pressure on cartel traffickers, illegal border crossers were moved west, with the San Diego Sector becoming the epicenter of the border crisis, The Center Square first reported in February and again in April as the crisis worsened.

California has also reported an increase in Chinese illegal border crossers as federal agents continue to target California-based Chinese-linked money laundering operations linked to the Sinaloa Cartel, The Center Square reported. California sheriffs have expressed their opposition to Vice President Kamala Harris’ border policies, saying, “we do not support her,” The Center Square reported. One sheriff told members of Congress that the policies of the Biden-Harris administration and Gov. Gavin Newsom turned California into “an open territory for the cartel to do whatever it wants.”

Combined, apprehensions in California’s two sectors totaled at least 525,634, excluding gotaways. Data for both sectors is consistent with nationwide data: the overwhelming majority of illegal border crossers are single adults coming from all over the world.

After revealing the extent to which Russia is currently winning the war in Ukraine, as well as unpacking how the global deep state has pretty much decimated the United States military, which used to be a force to be reckoned with, Prather spoke about the cartel invasion taking place at entry points in Texas, Arizona, and California.

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, asked Prather what he thinks about rumors that the U.S. military might end up waging war on the Mexican drug cartels. Prather’s response, in essence, is that the U.S. military is no longer a viable force to stop the drug cartels from taking over (this segment begins around the 16:05 mark in the video below).

“Our military has been infiltrated by espionage, and it has been sabotaged and interdicted as well,” Prather explained. “We can’t even have Border Patrol do their job. Under Trump there were, allegedly, special operations and special forces units operating in Mexico.”

“But to simply think that you can somehow put tanks and armed troops on the border at this point – the cartels are in all the major cities. The cartels are really running the Border Patrol at this point. Waging war in Mexico is way beyond our capabilities at this point.”

(Related: Americans are becoming so fat and degenerate that the “woke” U.S. military is having trouble recruiting anyone who actually wants to join its ranks anymore.)

The low-level drug cartels have become “corporate” cartels, i.e., pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer and Moderna that peddle the most dangerous drugs on Americans

There was a time, Prather revealed, when the U.S. military and law enforcement had some degree of force in Mexico and all throughout Central and South America where the drug rings operate. But after all those people were sent to either Afghanistan or Iraq to fight new wars, that presence disappeared.

As a result, the low-level cartels are now freely working with what Prather calls the “corporate” cartels, i.e., pharmaceutical drug companies like Moderna and Pfizer that now control the U.S. government right in plain sight – and most Americans seemingly could not care less.

“If Mexico is largely a narco state, then the United States is a pharma state,” stated the Health Ranger during the interview, illustrating this point in simple terms.

These same corporate drug cartels also now have a presence in communist China and are continuing to make their way eastward to end the emerging markets that are slated to overtake the Western markets, which are in decline and soon to reach freefall collapse.

Running all these corporate cartels and the deadly bioweapons they are manufacturing in order to also manufacture and sell the “cure” is none other than the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other three-letter intelligence agencies, which are working along with the infiltrated and compromised U.S. military to keep the racket going.

“It is the international intelligence community that is the praetorian guard of the world today,” Prather explained.

The ultimate, long-term strategic goal behind the intelligence community’s weakening of the U.S. at the same time that it enters China and other eastern markets seems to be to erase all national borders for the purpose of creating regional markets for their drugs.

“Moderna is DoD, which is CIA, which is DARPA, BARDA, and IARPA,” Prather further stated.

America is on the fast road to destruction. Learn more at Collapse.news.

Sources for this article include:

• Brighteon.com
• NaturalNews.com

The checklist, which was attached to a December 2022 email for “Safe Community Release,” states that in order to make community releases Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) must lack space, Border Patrol facilities must exceed capacity in order to allow for the release of migrants and the number of migrant encounters surpasses ICE and NGO capacity on a daily basis.

Border Patrol is required to meet all of the aforementioned criteria before making such releases.

National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd confirmed the validity of the documents, saying that while the checklist is policy, the overwhelming number of migrants in processing has led to releases without use of the document.

“This is policy that this is supposed to be done. Whether it falls through the cracks because of how busy we are, certainly things will fall through the cracks,” Judd told the DCNF.

Federal authorities at the southern border recorded more than 3.6 million migrant encounters between October 2022 and March 2023.

“Sectors will need to completely fill out the checklist with names and titles of all notified parties and email to USBP HQ at least 1 hour prior to completing the release,” the memo about the latest checklist stated.

It is used not just by southern border sectors, but also in the northern border, according to a source familiar with the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly.

“If there is further pertinent information about the release that the sector will need to relay to USBP HQ (i.e., media attention), it should be included in the email,” the memo stated.

The concern about migrant releases into southern border communities increased ahead of the expiration of Title 42, the Trump-era expulsion order, on May 11. Hours before the policy’s sunset, Yuma, Arizona, Mayor Doug Nicholls announced that migrants would be released into local communities.

Federal authorities expelled more than 2 million migrants using Title 42.

The DCNF also observed Border Patrol releasing migrants from Haiti and Romania that had crossed the northern border with Canada in March.

Meanwhile, with the lifting of Title 42, the Biden administration sought the use of parole authority to release migrants into the U.S. without court dates, instructing them to self-report to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A federal judge, however, quickly struck down the latest use of parole after Florida sued.

The Biden administration insisted after the judge’s move that federal border authorities aren’t “allowing” the “mass release of migrants.”

“The claims that CBP[U.S. Customs and Border Protection] is allowing or encouraging mass release of migrants is just categorically false. That is not what’s occurring, that is not what’s happening,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre said Friday.

On Thursday alone, federal authorities released more than 6,000 migrants using parole, according to court documents.

Neither CBP nor the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responded to requests for comment.

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This article by Roy Green over at Natural News highlights two realities that more Americans need to know. First, the invasion at our southern border is horrible but the end results are far worse than they could be because the Biden-Harris regime is letting illegal aliens in but not making them leave. When CBP officials say they’re only removing a fraction, what they really mean is they’re barely removing anyone at all. The second reality is that under President Trump’s policies, illegal aliens were removed in far greater numbers. Some point to Obama having higher deportation numbers, but they forget that the “Remain in Mexico” policy that kept asylum seekers on the southern side of the border did not contribute to deportation statistics.

With that said, here’s the article by Roy Green…

President Joe Biden has turned the United States into a haven for illegal aliens.

Under his administration, a record number of immigrants have entered the country illegally, mostly by way of the southern border. In the same manner, the fewest number of illegals were sent back home. Naturally, these aliens have swelled to alarming proportions, causing a big drain on the country’s economy and further spiking inflation.

Further, their sustained growth is alarming. According to Statista, there were 11.39 million illegals in the U.S. in 2018. It ballooned to 15.5 million last year based on Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) data.

These figures are hardly surprising, considering the policies favoring the aliens laid out by Biden since he took the helm on Jan. 20, 2021. Biden junked former President Donald Trump’s policies designed to keep the illegals out, including stopping the construction of the border wall.

Now, the implications of what Biden has done are being unraveled, even by his own people.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody pointed to the recent testimony of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations Executive Director Corey Price as evidence that the Biden administration is intentionally under-enforcing federal immigration law in a way that has never been seen. (Related: Biden orders ICE to stop deporting illegal alien sex offenders.)

The Biden administration’s officials are “flagrantly violating the very federal laws they swore to uphold,” said Moody, citing as an example Price’s testimony on Sept. 9, during the deposition process of Moody’s lawsuit against Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other border authorities. A video of Florida Chief Deputy Attorney General John Guard questioning Price was aired by Fox News.

Fox News also presented data showing that “from 2008 through 2016, ICE removed about 400,000 illegal immigrants, and never less than 230,000 per year. However, in 2021, under Biden, they had only deported 55,598.”

In comparison, under Trump’s watch in 2020, a total of 236,151 were removed from the DHS and 167,327 were returned, according to Statista. To make the distinction clear, removals are the compulsory movement of an inadmissible alien out of the U.S. by court order, while returns are the movement of a deportable alien out of the U.S. without an order.

According to Price, “border authorities had detained only about 40 percent of the illegal immigrants in 2021 than they did in 2019 under the Trump administration.”

Moody told Fox News: “Our deposition provides even more proof that the Bid

Biden purposely failing to enforce the law, detain inadmissible immigrants

en administration is intentionally under-enforcing federal immigration law in a way that has never been seen. At every phase of the process, Biden is purposely failing to enforce the law and detain and remove inadmissible immigrants.”

No wonder, FAIR estimates that about 4.9 million aliens have invaded the country in 18 months under the Biden administration with many of them already integrating into communities.

The ICE officials tried to dissuade the government from implementing their “reckless policies” but their advice went unheeded, bared Moody. That’s why she’s pointing at Biden as the culprit behind “the border crisis and the surge in American deaths from Mexican fentanyl.”

The mention of fentanyl is significant because the synthetic opioid is now the leading cause of death for American adults between the ages of 18 and 45. Also, fentanyl got smuggled in through the border, between 2020 and 2021, nearly 79,000 people died of fentanyl overdoses, according to data from Families Against Fentanyl.

Last year, the U.S. Border Patrol reported a total of 1,662,167 apprehensions, less than the 1.68 million reported in 2020, meaning tens of thousands of illegals were able to make their way through with thousands more trying their luck daily. On Sept. 24 alone, there were nearly 6,000 apprehensions, according to Statista.

The case of Price wasn’t the first evidence of Biden’s negligence or incompetence in handling the border crisis. In July, Moody tweeted the deposition of U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz.

“After the Biden administration denied that they were engaged in catch-and-release, and that they were responsible for the historic surge at our southern border, Florida got the Chief of Border Patrol to admit, under oath, the truth,” said Moody. “The Biden administration caused the surge, made the border less safe, and is flagrantly violating the very federal laws they swore to uphold.”

No surprise there. Biden has flouted the law and committed blunders since Day 1 of his term. From unconstitutional vaccine mandates, spiking inflation and the exodus of illegal aliens, Biden just couldn’t get it done right.

Watch the video below showing how the Biden administration is paying illegal immigrants to move to the United States.

This video is from the NewsClips channel on Brighteon.com.

More related stories:

• IRS sends $46 million in ‘tax refunds’ to thousands of illegal aliens all claiming the same Atlanta address.
• Biden regime depositing illegal aliens in red states so they will become “blue” states when amnesty comes.
• As border crisis worsens, over 118,000 migrants “got away” from Border Patrol in less than six months.

Sources include:

• Hosbeg.com
• CommonwealthPolicyCenter.org
• WesternJournal.com
• FoxNews.com
• Brighteon.com
• NATURAL NEWS