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U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) operational data on illegal immigration, including encounters and expulsions.
serves as the federal government's consolidated basic and advanced training hub for many agencies, but the curricula that , , and cohorts receive diverge sharply in venue, length, core content and age...
The short answer: no single presidential decision “let millions cross” the border, but during President Biden’s term U.S. agencies recorded more than 10 million border “encounters” and millions of peo...
Three types of independent databases have tracked deaths involving ICE, Border Patrol and other CBP personnel since the early 2000s: advocacy group–run fatal‑encounter trackers such as the ACLU of Tex...
CBP “encounters” is a catch‑all category created by that aggregates different contact types — USBP Title 8 , OFO Title 8 inadmissibles at ports of entry, and Title 42 expulsions — and is published in ...
States do not share a single definition or reporting standard for “illegal immigrant-related” crimes; reporting combines federal immigration categories, local criminal records, and ad hoc metrics that...
A straightforward, fully comparable count of “” from 2021–2024 does not exist in a single number because federal agencies publish overlapping but differently defined measures; using government and ind...
“expulsions” have been tracked by and publicly reported but are legally distinct from Title 8 deportations and removal orders; many official tallies present them separately even as some analysts and a...
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...
The documents provided are overwhelmingly -produced monthly and fiscal reports that present operational statistics—audits completed, seizures, removals, and encounter trends—but these materials do not...
Federal agencies do publish datasets that touch on , but there is no single, comprehensive federal dataset that cleanly lists convictions cross‑tabulated by immigration status for all jurisdictions; t...
The best available research shows widespread crime and in many measures commit fewer crimes than the U.S.-born population . Official enforcement tallies and rhetorical claims about a exist, but they d...
The primary federal publishers of —broken out to show criminality or "criminal nationals"—are the (including component press releases and its Office of Homeland Security Statistics), , and via specifi...
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, ...