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The challenge of determining the number of illegal immigrants who entered the U.S. due to inconsistencies in data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection
“encounters” are an administrative tally that sums Border Patrol apprehensions, inadmissibles, and Title 42 expulsions across ports, land and sea, not a headcount of unique people . Because an “encoun...
’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...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection recorded roughly 1.96 million migrant encounters in fiscal year 2021 and just over 2.00 million in fiscal year 2022, according to CBP data as reported in contemporan...