More than 81,000 migrants were stopped at the US border in the past 10 days as the frenzy ahead of the end of Title 42 on Thursday draws closer.

While a huge number handed themselves in to Border Patrol, 7,400 other migrants were ‘gotaways’ who were able to slip onto US soil and away from agents through all US borders over the past 72 hours, USBP Chief Raul Ortiz said Monday.

An estimated 18,700 also got away from authorities in the seven days before that, Ortiz has also said. Most gotaways are seen on video surveillance located in remote regions which are hard for agents to get to or spotted by field agents but unable to be apprehended.

Among those stopped at the border were nine sex offenders and eight gang members, according to Customs and Border Patrol. They also retrieved 17 guns and recovered 2,894 pounds of meth, 167 pounds of cocaine and 147 pounds of fentanyl.

USBP intercepted 164 pounds of marijuana, 83 pounds of meth and 66 pounds of cocaine, as well as several pounds’ worth of fentanyl and heroin, over the past 72 hours alone, Ortiz said.

A panic is underway at the border with many migrants turning themselves over to agents in the final days before Title 42 expires, ending years of CBP agents being able to swiftly eject migrants from certain countries without hearing their asylum claims, citing public health reasons.

An uncertainty over what will happen after is making many desperate migrants attempt to cross the border — either legally or illegally — as a result.

Title 42, enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic under President Donald Trump, is set to end Thursday. 

Hot bed cities such as Texas’ Brownsville and El Paso – seen as “ground zero” for the border crisis – are making preparations ahead of Thursday, as law enforcement previously told the Post thousands of migrants had gathered along the Mexico border ahead of the deadline.

According to data obtained by The Post, up to 16,000 migrants are camped and waiting to cross into San Diego from Tijuana, while as many as 35,000 are waiting in Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez to cross into El Paso.

Texas cities of Brownsville, El Paso and Laredo have already declared states of emergency.