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The number of apprehensions at the border during Trump's first term and the factors that affect it.
Available government reporting and public datasets do not provide a single, verifiable annual tally of people who were reported “” being held by or Customs and Border Protection () across the last dec...
The Obama-era totals reported as the highest in recent U.S. history do include large numbers of “returns” and voluntary departures that are counted alongside formal removals in DHS statistics, which i...
Federal agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) or related federal immigration teams were captured on video taking two people into custody at the Target store in Richfield around 2 p.m.; ...
Border Patrol “encounters” between ports of entry during ’s first term (February 2017–January 2021) totaled roughly , a commonly cited figure for people apprehended or otherwise detected crossing the ...
administration presided over a marked shift in how counted and carried out immigration enforcement: formal “removals” rose in prominence while “returns” fell sharply, producing millions of total depar...
U.S. agencies primarily rely on operational “encounters” recorded by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), supplemented by component tallies for apprehensions, inadmissibles at ports, expulsions, ...