By Jennie Taer| Daily Caller
- There were enough illegal immigrants caught and released into the country in 2023 to fill more than 17 Yankee Stadiums, according to federal data.
- Not a single year of encounters under the two previous presidential administrations came close to what federal authorities recorded in 2023, according to the data.
- “In retrospect, 2023 at the border was a progressively worse version of 2022,” former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott told the Daily Caller News Foundation.