Border agents bagged another thousand criminals who sloshed into the country in May amid the tsunami of illegal aliens.
The new total for fiscal 2021 is almost 7,000, about 1,000 a month for the first seven months of the year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported this week. The figure is almost three times of the total for all of last year.
But given that 1,000 illegals a day are escaping the border patrol, estimating the real number of rapists, murderers, child molesters, and other criminals slipping into the country is almost impossible.
But a rough reckoning. About 0.55 percent of the illegals apprehended this month were criminals.
The Numbers
Through May 31, CBP reported, agents caught 6,918. In April, the figure was 5,861.
Total increase: 18 percent.
The total for last year, the final full fiscal year of the Trump Administration, was 2,438. Thus, thanks to Biden’s open-borders policy that invited more than one million illegals into the country — not counting those uncaught — the number of criminals agents must apprehend has increased 183 percent.
Thus, border agents aren’t just with a massive invasion that now numbers 929,868 illegals caught. They’re facing hardened criminals who won’t stay out of the country — .07 percent of those apprehended have been convicted criminals.
CBP also details the number of criminals by offense:
• Assault, battery, domestic violence: 775
• Burglary, robbery, larceny, theft, fraud: 541
• Driving under the influence: 1,118
• Homicide, manslaughter: 43
• Illegal drug possession, trafficking: 1,318
• Illegal entry, re-entry: 3,836
• Illegal weapons possession, transport, trafficking: 221
• Sexual offenses: 353
• Other: 1,821
The monthly apprehension rate of this criminal cohort is 988, about four a day, October 1 through May 31.
But again, this bunch does not include the rapists, thieves, murderers, and sex fiends who slipped by border agents, who are deluged with a tidal wave of illegals pouring into Biden’s America.
About 1,000 a day are getting past agents, the Washington Post reported in April. As of the end of May, the 6,918 criminals caught at the border were 0.7 percent of the year’s total: 929,868. So a rough estimate of those whom agents did not catch is seven per day.
That would mean 217 convicted criminals entered the country in May; 1,701 since the beginning of the fiscal year in October.
Those rapists and murderers — most if not all men — are lurking somewhere in America, perhaps working for a landscaper, waiting to catch and her children home alone, perhaps prowling a mall, hoping to grab a high-school girl.
No More Waiting In Mexico
These facts are what makes President Biden’s open-border policy so terrifying to law-abiding Americans.
Now that Biden is releasing thousands of immigrants and either busing or flying them to a chosen destination without proper vetting, no one can know how many communities he has inoculated with illegal-alien criminals.
As The New American reported on June 4, NBC News inadvertently disclosed just what Biden might be unleashing upon unsuspecting Americans: “17 percent of all families and single adults apprehended by [Rio Grande Valley Border Sectors agents] this year have been released into the U.S.”
As well, “borderwide, about 15 percent of single adults and 65 percent of families are released into the U.S. rather than expelled, according to Customs and Border Protection data from April.”
How many of them were criminals we are not given to know.
We do know what their victims look like. In 2018, an illegal Mexican hired to work on a farm murdered Mollie Tibbetts.
In 2006, an illegal Guatemalan, also employed somehow, murdered wife and mother Mary Nagle.
The illegals murdered their victims 12 years apart. But the cases are virtually identical: An illegal alien slipped into the country, found work, then murdered an American woman.
Based on his de facto open-border police, Sleepy Joe, apparently, is fine with that.