Where Did 4.5 Million Illegal Aliens, Who Arrived Under Joe Biden, End Up Staying in the U.S.? – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Pew Research Center data, Border Patrol recorded about 7.7 million encounters at the U.S.–Mexico border between Fiscal Years 2021 and 2025. Those numbers include illegals who were captured more than once and people who were immediately expelled.

Estimates of the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population, meaning the total number of illegal aliens who live in the country, grew by roughly five million people between 2019 and 2024 (reaching a peak population of 15.8 million in mid-2024). There were also an estimated 2 million “gotaways” who entered the country illegally between 2021 and 2024 and were never apprehended or detected.

Where did those five million people end up living?

“An analysis of federal records obtained by The Associated Press traces the self-reported destinations of 4.5 million migrants released into the United States after crossing the Mexican border between October 2018 and July 2025,” reports the Daily Wire. “The records show illegal immigrants from around the world dispersing far beyond communities along the southern border, reaching major cities, suburbs, and smaller communities with relatively low immigrant populations.”

None of those communities requested this massive influx. Most were ill-prepared for the sudden population increase. The strain on many communities’ services and infrastructure was severe; in many cases, they broke under the strain.

The illegals were from 150 countries, according to the AP report, and “Venezuelans and Cubans accounted for the largest numbers of migrants in the data, with roughly 773,000 and 539,000 arrivals, respectively.”

 Other Latin American countries that sent us significant influxes of citizens included Mexico, Colombia, and Honduras.