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claims certain warrantless authorities within a regulatory “reasonable distance” of the border—codified as 100 air miles by regulation—but that statutory framework and agency practice are messy, conte...
Counting how many people “crossed the border illegally under Biden” depends on the measure: U.S. Border Patrol encounters/apprehensions rose to record highs during Biden’s term — CBP and advocacy tall...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reports “encounters” — a combined count of Border Patrol apprehensions, port-of-entry inadmissibles and Title 42 expulsions — that rose sharply early in Presid...
U.S. government reporting and news coverage for 2025 show historically low land-border encounters and USBP apprehensions: CBP reported southwest border apprehensions of about 8,347 in February 2025 an...
The data provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) public datasets show , but translating those encounters into a single, definitive count of “illegal immigrants who came into the U.S.” is ...
Official government "encounter" data show roughly at U.S. borders from the start of 2020 through mid-2024, but that figure is a count of events recorded by , not a headcount of unique people . Because...
A precise count of "" is not stated in the provided reporting; the authoritative agencies that publish those tallies are for enforcement "encounters" and the for port-level inbound crossings, but the ...
and distinguish ""—compulsory departures based on a formal order of removal—from "returns"—confirmed departures not pursuant to such an order, like voluntary returns or withdrawals—and report them bot...
"Encounters" are administrative events recorded by Customs and Border Protection when someone is apprehended, found inadmissible at a port of entry, or expelled under special authorities; they do not ...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the Department of Homeland Security component that unifies multiple border functions into one agency; its principal operational elements include the Office ...
The DHS monthly tables count “encounters” as immigration events recorded primarily by CBP—an umbrella tally that includes Border Patrol apprehensions, Office of Field Operations inadmissibles at ports...
Official U.S. statistics on “illegal border crossings” come primarily from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) dashboards and monthly releases (which report “encounters” that combine Border Patro...
prove to be a stitched-together mosaic: ’s Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS) aggregates and “cleans and validates” reported by , ’s Office of Field Operations (OFO) and the U.S. Border Pat...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) already collects biographic data, travel records and increasingly biometrics from non‑U.S. travelers; recent 2025 notices propose adding mandatory social‑media...
CBP encounter data show extremely high annual totals in early Biden years and a sharp decline by 2024–2025: CBP reported about 1.66 million Border Patrol encounters at the U.S.-Mexico (southwest) bord...
uses distinct categories in its public reporting: "removals" (often called in everyday language), "returns," and "Title 42 expulsions," which together DHS aggregates as "repatriations"; meanwhile, "se...
DHS "encounters" count events — every time a removable alien is stopped, apprehended, inadmissible at a port of entry, or expelled — not distinct people, so one person can generate multiple encounters...
CBP and multiple analysts report that the overwhelming majority of fentanyl seizures by weight happen at official ports of entry rather than between ports on the land border—commonly summarized as “ab...
DHS treats "repatriations" as an umbrella statistic that mixes several distinct administrative actions—formal removals, returns (administrative/voluntary departures and withdrawals), and Title 42 expu...
Official tallies of "illegal border crossings" in U.S. government reporting are recorded as "encounters," a composite measure that includes Border Patrol apprehensions, Office of Field Operations inad...