In the years prior to 2026, 3 to 4 million people entered the United States annually without screening.
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Louder with CrowderOct 5, 2026
The claim's annual figure of 3 to 4 million unscreened entries is not supported by the sources. CBO's count of people observed entering but not caught was about 670,674 in FY2023, and the DHS finding describes unscreened gotaways as 'millions over the last several years', a cumulative figure rather than an annual one.
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… you can be unhappy about a few things, but compared to what you had, you had such a good government that you just well, well, there's no more illegal immigrants coming in the country, but, yeah, it doesn't matter. Like, you people forget that. Yeah, like, just a couple of years ago it had three, 4 million people getting in unscreened every year. Yeah, right. So people it's it's a, it's a game of diminishing gains, because every time you have success, people just take it for granted, and I'm sure that's going to happen in Brazil as well. …
Louder with Crowder · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. CBO reports that 670,674 people were observed entering the country in FY2023 without being caught or pursued by Border Patrol, which is far below 3 to 4 million per year.[2]
Contradicts. DHS describes 'gotaways' who evaded screening as 'millions over the last several years', a multi-year cumulative figure, not an annual rate of 3 to 4 million.[3]
Context. Census and CBO net immigration figures (3.5 million in 2023, 2.3 million in 2024) measure net migration including lawful immigration, not unscreened entries, so they do not establish the claimed figure.[2][4]
Context. The official gotaway count is uncounted and the sources acknowledge that unseen crossings are hard to measure, so the true annual total is uncertain, though no source supports a 3 to 4 million annual rate.[1][2]
Sources
4 sources: 1 fact-checker, 3 primary
- 1Illegal Immigration and Fentanyl at the U.S. Northern ...factcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2The Demographic Outlook: 2026 to 2056cbo.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts, context
- 3Finding of Mass Influx of Aliensfederalregister.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 4How Many Illegal Aliens Are in the United States? 2025 ...congress.gov · primary source · cited for: context
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