More than 7MILLION migrants have entered the US under Biden - greater than the population of 36 individual states

Over seven million migrants have managed to make their way across the southern border under President Biden, according to new figures. 

Statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Protection show that this fiscal year alone, there has already been a reported 961,537 border encounters.

The year, which runs from October to September, is already on current pace to break last year's record of 2,475,669. 

Since Biden took office, the total number of southwest land border encounters hit a staggering 7,298,486. 

The total does not include an estimated 1.8 million known 'gotaways' who managed to evade law enforcement. 

That amount is larger than the individual populations of 36 states, including Alabama, Colorado, Maryland, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia. 

Migrants cross the border to be received by Customs and Border Protection to be processed and have their asylum claims assessed

Since Biden took office, the total number of southwest land border encounters hit a staggering 7,298,486. Pictured: Migrants cross under razor wire at the U.S.-Mexico border on February 6, 2024

The figure accounts for around 18.7 percent of California's population of 39 million, 23.9 percent of the state of Texas with its 31 million citizens and 37.3 percent of New York.

In December, a new record was broken when it was revealed that over 300,000 migrants had crossed in the month - topping the highest amount ever recorded. 

Just days after taking office, Biden immediately rolled back on several Trump-era restrictions. 

While warning that he would be enforcing immigration laws, he kept in a Trump policy named Title 42 that allowed authorities to quickly expel border crossers.

The Biden administration then announced that it would not use Title 42 to turn back unaccompanied minors who arrived without a parent or guardian. 

Numbers started to climb almost immediately and Title 42 ended last May and 10,000 people then flooded into the country. 

If elected for another term in office, Trump has vowed he would prioritize tightening back up the southern border.

The Republican frontrunner said there would be 'the largest domestic deportation' in U.S. history with him at the helm. 

Just days after taking office, Biden immediately rolled back on several Trump-era restrictions

Seen from an aerial view, people pass through razor wire after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into El Paso, Texas on February 01, 2024 from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Migrants attempt to cross Mexico-United States border despite heightened security measures, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on February 01, 2024

Eric Ruark, Director of Research for Numbers USA, a nonprofit that advocates for immigration restrictions, told Fox News: 'This unprecedented surge in illegal immigration isn't an accident. 

'It is the result of deliberate policy choices by the Biden administration.'

These figures comes as the President is now considering taking executive action to raise the standards used to process and screen asylum-seekers at the border. 

Biden is considering bypassing Congress and taking unilateral action to make it harder for migrants to pass the initial asylum screening interview. 

Biden's order, officials familiar with deliberations tell NBC News, would also allow more quick deportations of recently arrived migrants who do not meet this increased criteria.

The new policies would instruct asylum officers to raise the standards for 'credible fear interviews,' which assess whether migrants have a reasonable concern to fear for their lives or safety in the countries from which they fled.

Additionally, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be told to adopt a 'last in, first out' policy, which would prioritize recently arrived migrants for deportation, the officials revealed.

Trump is looking to model a new immigration model off of a program under President Dwight D. Eisenhower known as 'Operation Wetback' 

Trump is looking to model a new immigration model off of a program under President Dwight D. Eisenhower known as 'Operation Wetback,' which is a derogatory slur used to refer to a Mexican living in the US without official authorization.

This program used military tactics to gather and remove migrants working in the U.S.

Trump pledges that if president again he would immediately launch a similar program that would lead to 'the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.'

Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement: 'Americans can expect that immediately upon President Trump's return to the Oval Office, he will restore all of his prior policies, implement brand new crackdowns that will send shock waves to all the world's criminal smugglers, and marshal every federal and state power necessary to institute the largest deportation operation in American history.'

Some claim that military round up and deportations would bottleneck detention spaces, but Trump and his team have said they would get around this issue by building mass deportation camps.