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The number of border apprehensions recorded by CBP during Donald Trump's first term.
There is no single, authoritative count of how many people “entered illegally” during Donald Trump’s first term (Jan 2017–Jan 2021); immigration scholars and agencies rely on imperfect proxies — borde...
Available reporting in the packet does not provide a single, authoritative total count of people who crossed the during ’s first term (Jan 2017–Jan 2021); instead, the sources describe trends — notabl...
The government does not publish a definitive count of how many people “crossed the border illegally and remained” during ’s presidency; the clearest official metrics are encounters or apprehensions re...
’s headline “encounters” counts are raw contacts that combine , Office of Field Operations inadmissibles at ports and , and they count repeat crossings as separate events, so they do not equal the num...
Official public reporting of (UAC) encountered at the southwest land border in 2024 and 2025 is dispersed across monthly releases, Congressional research summaries, and advocacy or partisan fact sheet...
Federal border-enforcement data show that southern border who have prior criminal convictions are a small minority of total encounters and that the exact share varies year to year; CBP publishes convi...
At the moment left office (January 2025), there is no single, undisputed headcount of “”; reporters and officials instead point to several different metrics — cumulative encounters over his term, rece...
The specific July 2021 figure is essentially correct in context: reported roughly 18,962 encounters with unaccompanied children that month and an average of 1,363 UACs in CBP custody per day (CBP oper...
The available reporting shows that the Trump administration’s enforcement-heavy approach coincided with dramatic declines in detected crossings and official “encounters,” which DHS and CBP characteriz...