{"id":23791,"date":"2026-04-28T03:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/hundreds-of-border-patrol-agents-reassigned-to-southern-border-as-gotaways-surge\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T03:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:34:10","slug":"hundreds-of-border-patrol-agents-reassigned-to-southern-border-as-gotaways-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/hundreds-of-border-patrol-agents-reassigned-to-southern-border-as-gotaways-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Of Border Patrol Agents Reassigned To Southern Border As \u2018Gotaways\u2019 Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Hundreds of Border Patrol agents are being pulled from across the country to address an influx of illegal immigrants trying to run from authorities in a Texas border town, multiple Department of Homeland Security sources told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n

At least 200 Border Patrol agents from both the southern and northern borders are being pulled for 30-day volunteer duties to support colleagues in Laredo, Texas, who are trying to chase down the \u201cgotaways,\u201d sources said. The number of \u201cgotaways\u201d running through Laredo is not public.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone from across the country is getting sent there,\u201d one source said.<\/p>\n

Border agents monitor gotaways through sensors and cameras, but the true number isn\u2019t known. During the Biden administration, the number of known gotaways surged past 2 million illegal immigrants, according<\/a> to the House Homeland Security Committee.<\/p>\n

A Border Patrol source stationed along the northern border told The Daily Wire they\u2019re not volunteering to head south because there\u2019s not enough manpower to cover the smuggling traffic coming from Canada. While fewer than 600 illegal migrants have been caught crossing the northern border each month since November, some stations find it difficult with fewer agents to cover the largest land crossing in the world.<\/p>\n

Border agents stationed in the Laredo border sector were seeing thousands of illegal migrants cross each month under the Biden administration. Now, the numbers are in the hundreds and slightly jumped in March, when agents caught 1,242 illegal migrants.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re asking for manpower, they already have close to 2,000 agents on the southern border, so if you\u2019re having that many gotaways then that\u2019s a leadership thing,\u201d the agent said. \u201cNone of us need to go over there because we got our own stations to take care of, that\u2019s how most of the agents feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cOn the northern border, we\u2019re in small towns that are south of these small cities that are hubs for illegals. There is this massive influx coming out of all of these cities and they\u2019re coming into small towns so we have to be vigilant of local police resources. Sometimes, you\u2019re the only agent out in the field and you have to deal with people that are trying to get in pursuits,\u201d the agent added.<\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

President Donald Trump has imposed harsher consequences for illegal border crossers, while carrying out a mass deportation campaign. That effort has driven illegal crossings down to historic lows.<\/p>\n

More than 8 million illegal immigrants crossed the southern border during the Biden administration, which was releasing them en masse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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