Feds expect 8M influx pop. by Sept.

The population of migrants living within the US will surge to 8 million by the end of September — a dramatic 167% increase over five years driven by President Biden’s handling of the border crisis, according to government data.

At the end of fiscal year 2023 on Sept. 30, more than 6 million asylum-seekers and other migrants were on the “non-detained docket” — which lists court cases involving noncitizens who have been temporarily released from

ICE custody.

The Biden administration anticipates that number will swell to 8 million by Oct. 1, according to Department of Homeland Security documents sent to Congress and obtained by Axios.

An estimated 2 million people in the backlog have been slated for deportation by a judge or are facing criminal charges.

Even after a judge has ruled that a migrant must be deported, they are able to appeal the decision. In the meantime, the deportation is put on hold.

Only when another ruling is issued does the order of removal become final, allowing ICE to apprehend the migrant and remove them from the US.

Others on the list are waiting to receive decisions on their asylum applications — a process that typically takes years due to a backlog of over 3 million immigration court cases.

Those tallies also do not include an estimated 1.8 million “gotaways” — migrants who evaded capture by the Border Patrol — since Biden took office in January 2021.

In the fiscal year 2023 alone, over 600,000 people illegally crossed the border into the US without being apprehended, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas confirmed in October.

In February nearly 190,000 people crossed the southern border — a spike of 30,000 compared to the same time last year, reported NewsNation journalist Ali Bradley, citing DHS sources.

The migrant crisis also has been felt on the northern border, which recorded more than 189,000 encounters in fiscal year 2023.