Over 2.3 Million Migrants Released into U.S. under Biden Administration

Deportations reach a decade high, while 'gotaways' and unaccompanied minors add to the immigration challenge.

Under the Biden administration, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has released more than 2.3 million migrants into the United States at the southern border, a figure significantly lower than the more than 6 million migrants taken into CBP custody during the same period.
From May to September, DHS deported more migrants than during any other five-month period in the last decade.
The 2.3 million releases by CBP do not include the roughly 365,000 unaccompanied minors encountered by the agency since 2021 who were transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The report does not include estimates for the number of border-crossers who were detected by CBP but not taken into custody, a category the agency refers to as “gotaways.” CBP detected about 600,000 gotaways in 2022 and 389,000 in 2021.
Venezuelans were the largest group released over the past three fiscal years, with more than 382,600 passing through border facilities. Cubans were the second largest, with more than 316,000 releases, followed by more than 200,000 each from Nicaragua and Honduras.