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The number of border patrol encounters, including apprehensions and expulsions, and the impact of policy changes
As of late 2025 and early 2026 independent analyses of point-in-time detention counts show that a substantial majority of people in ICE custody had no criminal conviction on record—most sources put th...
ICE received large and growing resources during the Obama years, forming a substantial share of DHS immigration spending even as DHS as a whole also expanded; ICE’s funding and staffing increases supp...
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...
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 ...
expulsions are public‑health–based, immediate removals counted as "expulsions" by and tracked separately from Title 8 removals, which are removals under immigration law . Because CBP encounter statist...
Federal shape by imposing legal and agency standards—deadly force is permitted only when an agent reasonably believes there is an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm, and force must be pro...
Title 42’s swift expulsions produced a high “churn” effect: encounters ballooned while many represented the same people trying repeatedly to cross, driving up repeat-encounter (recidivism) rates durin...
Fiscal-year and calendar tallies show a clear contrast: 2024 saw far fewer Border Patrol apprehensions on the southwest border than the surge years that followed 2020, with Border Patrol apprehensions...
Independent tallies of “illegal crossings” during President Biden’s term vary widely because sources use different measures—CBP encounter counts, “gotaways” detected by sensors, expulsions under Title...
Public data do not support a single, undisputed count of “how many illegals crossed the border under Biden”; federal agencies report millions of “encounters” that include repeat crossings, returned mi...