17.5 times population of Vermont
By Bethany Blankley, for The Center Square
According to U.S. Customs and Border protection data, 9.4 million foreign nationals illegally entered the U.S. in fiscal years 2021, 2022, 2023 and through the end of February 2024.
Including another more than 2 million gotaways, reported by The Center Square, combined, they total an estimated 11.4 million, more than the population of 43 U.S. states (counted separately, not combined).
They also total more than the population of all individual U.S. cities, including the largest city of New York City, and are greater than the populations of roughly 150 countries.
With February’s record 256,094 illegal border crossers, and more than 120,000 gotaways in the first quarter of fiscal 2024, the number of illegal border crossers in fiscal 2024 through February total more than 1.6 million, the highest in U.S. history.
Record numbers came through in the first quarter of fiscal 2024 both at the northern and southwest borders, the highest of any quarter and per month in U.S. history.
If fiscal 2024 numbers continue at the current trajectory, they will likely be the largest number on record, surpassing last year’s record.
Last fiscal year, nearly 4 million, including gotaways, were reported to have illegally entered the U.S., The Center Square first reported.
“Gotaways” is the official term used by Border Patrol agents to describe foreign nationals who intentionally illegally enter the U.S. between ports of entry and don’t return to Mexico or Canada. CBP doesn’t publicly report gotaway data. The Center Square first began reporting it to provide a more accurate picture of the number of illegal border crossers entering the U.S. every month under the current administration.
Illegal border crossers (fiscal year 2021 through fiscal 2024 through the end of February 2024) total more than 19 Wyomings, 17.5 Vermonts, 15.5 Alaskas, 14 North Dakotas, 12 South Dakotas, and nearly 11 Delawares, President Joe Biden’s home state.
Put another way, they total 29% of California’s entire population, nearly 37% of Texas’ population, and nearly half of Florida’s population, the country’s three most populous states.
They total 58% of New York’s population, 88% of Pennsylvania’s population, 91% of Illinois’ population and nearly as much as Ohio’s population. They total more than the eighth most populous state of Georgia and the rest of the U.S. states and territories.
The Center Square first reported on the number of illegal border crossers totaling more than the population of individual states. In June 2022, more than three million had illegally entered the U.S., totaling more than the individual populations of 23 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.
By August 2022, that number had increased to total more than the population of 25 states and more than 100 countries and territories.
Now, they total more than roughly 150 countries, outranking the 83rd most populous country of Jordan with 11.3 million people. They total more than the populations of the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Sweden, Honduras, Greece, Portugal, Hungary, Israel, Austria, Switzerland, Libya and Nicaragua.
They also total more than double the populations of Finland, Norway, Lebanon, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Ireland, Panama and Kuwait.
They more than triple the populations of Georgia, Uruguay, Jamiaca and Qatar.
The numbers exponentially increased after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas implemented policies to create a “legal pathway” for millions of foreign nationals who otherwise would be prohibited from entry. More than half of U.S. states sued over them, arguing they are illegal. The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security identified over a dozen parole policies Mayorkas created that it argues are illegal included as reasons for which he was impeached last month, The Center Square reported.
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And yes, those numbers should scare you!!
That was the plan from the start, let the invasion happen, more people to every state
so they can redistrict and pack counties, so the House of Representatives can be increased because of more constituents, and when that happens they’ll push to let them vote ……………. Oh yeah, they work for less wages and you’ll be out in the cold !!
Voting is a privilege for US legal citizens, not for the criminals who broke our laws to
get here, our country will be destroyed if we let them !!
check out new york city and all the fun they are having//// coming to your town soon with more tax payer funded goat herder housing/// then your employer can fire you and hire all of the new tourists/// this should make you happy when your equal in the unemployment line////
I heard a person from South Burlington area relay fire alarms going off in their building due to new arrivals not knowing how to operate a stove/oven – I guess they just turn it on full blast and place a pan of oil on it and walk away. They also blew up the plumbing flushing food and other items down the toilets. Good times!
As a sanctuary driven society, it would appear that VT has room for them all. Taking care of all ski industry worker needs and dairy farm personnel needs in one fell swoop.
With any luck these newcomers could also cash in on the relocation to VT bounty if still available.
Keep the gates open to push the flatlanders out who have skewed VT politics for all time.
Flatlanders from California, Colorado, NYS, MA, CT, etc., etc. who often have mountain ranges far higher than VT does, making your ancestors claims sound awfully unlearned.
And how about all the born-in-Vt folks who left for greener pastures & moved out west or down south? Are they to blame for the new ills that plague those states?
Until anyone begins to realize that this is a war between good and evil, right and wrong, extremists vs. traditionalists —- you are still just being played by the D.C. swamp rats and they’re just loving it.
American vs American ——- Instead of American vs. Communist.
Wake up VT.
Burlington, Winooski and Montpelier allow legal non citizens to vote in local elections.
It’s pathetic
The numbers given by CBP are deceptive if you don’t know how to read them. Each entry represents an entry not necessarily a person. Son people enter repeatedly and are deported only to return.
Next time democrats and progressives piss and moan about homelessness and the lack of affordable housing, remind them of the 10+ million new people in the US that all need a place to live that sleep Joe has allowed in. HUD estimates there are about 3/4 million homeless Americans…that pales in comparison.
Those are all military aged men with military type hair cuts in camouflage no less- hmmm
Yes, they are. They will not make it up my hill.
There are now tens of thousands of similar military aged men in the United States. Since Biden has been in office, and the United States’ borders have been thrown open, there are probably several divisions worth of “…military aged men with military type haircuts in camouflage..,” about 20,000 to 40,000 potential soldiers. It took only 23 men to bring down the twin towers and launch attack on the Pentagon and crash in Pennsylvania. If it is possible to smuggle tons and tons of illegal drugs into the United States, it’s very possible to smuggle in thousands of military grade weapons. This possibility, of vast numbers of a foreign country’s military or drug cartel gang members are already in our country, should scare the living hell out Americans…
Go watch the Walmart bus stop in Williston for a while. In the past three years we now have Romani gypsies panhandling with children while their husbands install skimmers on all our card readers to drain our accounts. There’s also prostitutes from Guatemala and El Sal soliciting.
This is all brand new for the state of Vermont. Thanks Biden.
Looks organized. Well-outfitted, neat haircuts, well-fed and hydrated.
I wonder if they have check-points where they meet up with their organizers.
Makes ya wanna exchange our losers with these guys.
Maybe we should look into that and upset the operation differently.
welcome to the new and improved vermont zoo////////
Seeing that KIng Scott was the only republican gov that did not show his support for the Texas southern border should tell you everything.
Instead of calling them “gotaways,” as if the authorities had actually tried to stop them, perhaps they should be called “letthemgos.”
The Biden Administration, liberal Dem Swamp Rats 🐀 🐀 and Rinos are Disgusting human beings period! To say the least!!
Wake up Americans wake up Vermonters!
It’s time to vote Red, Red, Red, Red vote Red period folks!!
This is all about changing the demography of our nation. As is, our CENSUS COUNTS ALL PERSONS, yes illegal/undocumented…. This will change districts and the electoral votes… this is TREASON in more than one way
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
Barack Obama in Columbia, Missouri, on Oct. 30, 2008