April 2019 Southern Border Stats Show Border Beyond ‘Breaking Point’
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the nation’s largest federal law enforcement agency charged with securing the nation’s borders and facilitating international travel and trade. Their top priority is to keep terrorists and their weapons from entering the United States.
At the nation’s more than 300 ports of entry, CBP officers have a complex mission with broad law enforcement authorities tied to screening all foreign visitors, returning American citizens and imported cargo that enters the U.S.
Along the nation’s borders, the United States Border Patrol and Air and Marine Operations are the uniformed law enforcement arms of CBP responsible for securing U.S. borders between ports of entry.
The following is a summary of CBP enforcement actions related to inadmissibles, apprehensions, arrests of individuals with criminal convictions, individuals who have been apprehended multiple times crossing the border illegally, currancy and drug seizures.
Visit CBP’s Southwest Border Migration page for demographic information regarding apprehensions and inadmissibles on the southwest border and the Use of Force page for use-of-force statistics and case summaries.
“We are taking aggressive action to mitigate the crisis, and protect vulnerable people in our custody by expanding medical care, creating temporary facilities, improving transportation, using additional resources from across DHS while seeking continued support from interagency partners throughout the Federal government,” said Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan while recently visiting McAllen Texas.
Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection
BY SECTOR: Southwest Border Family Unit Subject, Unaccompanied Alien Children, and Single Adult Apprehensions Fiscal Year 2019 – By Month
FMUA: Family Unit Apprehensions
UAC: Unaccompanied Alien Children
SA: Single Adult
FMUA
UAC
SA
TOTAL
Sector
FY 2019 APR
FY 2019 APR
FY 2019 APR
FY 2019 APR
Big Bend, Texas
224
61
656
941
Del Rio, Texas
3,440
397
2,013
5,850
El Centro
737
257
2,397
3,391
El Paso, Texas
20,428
2,464
3,975
26,867
Laredo, Texas
101
259
3,612
3,972
Rio Grande, Texas
22,889
3,753
10,039
36,681
San Diego, California
2,096
370
3,725
6,191
Tucson, Arizona
1,538
395
3,988
5,921
Yuma, Arizona
7,021
941
1,201
9,163
Southwest Border Total
58,474
8,897
31,606
98,977
Last modified: May 8, 2019
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U.S. Border Patrol Southwest Border Apprehensions FY 2019
USBP
Demographic
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
Total
Southwest Border
Unaccompanied Alien Child
4,968
5,259
4,754
5,107
6,821
8,973
8,897
44,779
Family Units*
23,116
25,164
27,507
24,200
36,531
53,205
58,474
248,197
Single Adult
22,924
21,433
18,487
18,684
23,531
30,653
31,606
167,318
Southwest Border Total Apprehensions
51,008
51,856
50,748
47,991
66,883
92,831
98,977
460,294
*Family Unit represents the number of individuals (either a child under 18 years old, parent, or legal guardian) apprehended with a family member by the U.S. Border Patrol.
In April, 98,977 people were apprehended between ports of entry on the Southwest Border, compared with 92,831 in the month of March and 66,883 in February.
In FY18, a total of 396,579 individuals were apprehended between ports of entry on our Southwest Border.
Office of Field Operations Southwest Border Inadmissibles FY 2019
Field Operations
Demographic
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
Total
Southwest Border
Unaccompanied Alien Child
453
404
350
408
426
423
386
2,850
Family Units*
4,178
4,986
4,382
4,211
4,210
4,196
3,443
29,606
Single Adults
5,053
5,146
5,213
5,619
4,939
6,168
6,144
38,282
Accompanied Minor Child**
86
70
81
71
76
101
194
679
Southwest Border Total Inadmissibles
9,770
10,606
10,026
10,309
9,651
10,888
10,167
71,417
*Family Unit represents the number of individuals (either a child under 18 years old, parent, or legal guardian) deemed inadmissible with a family member by the Office of Field Operations.
**Accompanied Minor Child represents a child accompanied by a parent or legal guardian and the parent or legal guardian is either a U.S. Citizen, Lawful Permanent Resident, or admissible alien, and the child is determined to be inadmissible.
In April, 10,167 people presenting themselves at ports of entry on the Southwest Border were deemed inadmissible, compared with 10,888 in the month of March and 9,651 in February.
In FY18, 124,511 people presenting themselves at ports of entry on the Southwest Border were deemed inadmissible.
OFO inadmissibility metrics include: individuals encountered at ports of entry who are seeking lawful admission into the United States but are determined to be inadmissible, individuals presenting themselves to seek humanitarian protection under our laws, and individuals who withdraw an application for admission and return to their countries of origin within a short timeframe.
Criminal Aliens with Outstanding Wants or Warrants
2,675
1,550
2,405
3Criminal Aliens refers to aliens who have been convicted of crime, whether in the United States or abroad, so long as the conviction is for conduct which is deemed criminal by the United States. Criminal aliens encountered at ports of entry are inadmissible, absent extenuating circumstances, and represent a subset of total OFO inadmissibles. U.S. Border Patrol arrests of criminal aliens are a subset of total apprehensions. See U.S. Border Patrol Criminal Alien Statistics for a breakdown of criminal alien stats by type of conviction. 4NCIC (National Crime Information Center) arrests refers to the number of CBP arrests of individuals, including U.S. citizens, who are wanted by other law enforcement agencies.
Southwest Border Unaccompanied Alien
Children Inadmissibles by Fiscal Year
Numbers below reflect Fiscal Years 2017 – 2018 and 2019 TD
Unaccompanied Alien Children by Country
Country
FY 2017
FY 2018
FY 19TD APR
El Salvador
1,721
833
99
Guatemala
2,829
3,691
560
Honduras
1,173
1,655
443
Mexico
1,556
2,210
1,550
Southwest Border Family Unit* Inadmissibles by Fiscal Year
Numbers below reflect Fiscal Years 2017 – 2018 and 2019 TD
Family Unit by Country
Country
FY 2017
FY 2018
FY 19TD APR
El Salvador
4,577
3,738
1,131
Guatemala
6,789
12,185
3,833
Honduras
4,246
8,327
3,779
Mexico
10,628
21,411
13,847
*Family Unit represents the number of individuals (either a child under 18 years old, parent or legal guardian) deemed inadmissible with a family member by the Office of Field Operations.
Southwest Border Accompanied Minor Child* by Fiscal Year
Numbers below reflect Fiscal Years 2017 – 2018 and 2019 TD
Accompanied Minor Children by Country
Country
FY 2017
FY 2018
FY 19TD APR
El Salvador
24
14
7
Guatemala
46
85
25
Honduras
34
58
45
Mexico
940
1,184
557
*Accompanied Minor Child represents a child accompanied by a parent or legal guardian and the parent or legal guardian is either a U.S. Citizen, Lawful Permanent Resident or admissible alien, and the child is determined to be inadmissible.
Southwest Border Single Adult Inadmissibles by Fiscal Year
Numbers below reflect Fiscal Years 2017 – 2018 and 2019 TD
Single Adults by Country
Country
FY 2017
FY 2018
FY 19TD APR
El Salvador
1,020
1,088
679
Guatemala
1,100
1,648
670
Honduras
917
1,719
1,514
Mexico
41,044
45,525
21,847
Cuban Inadmissibles
U.S. Customs and Border Protection maintains a robust posture regarding the enforcement of our immigration laws along the nation’s borders and coastal areas.
*Effective January 12, 2017, the United States ended the special parole policy, also known as the “wet-foot/dry-foot” policy, for Cuban migrants that has been in place since the mid-1990s.
Since then, Cuban nationals who attempt to illegally enter the United States are subject to removal, consistent with our enforcement priorities.
These actions are part of the ongoing normalization of relations between the governments of the United States and Cuba, and reflect a commitment to have a broader immigration policy in which we treat people from different countries consistently.
Numbers below reflect totals for Fiscal Years 2014-2018, and 2019 TD
Cuban Inadmissibles
Field Office
FY 2014
FY 2015
FY 2016
FY 2017
FY 2018
FY 19TD APR
El Paso
415
685
5,018
340
394
4,737
Laredo
15,333
26,181
34,658
14,275
6,533
5,835
San Diego
1,229
1,555
1,589
600
131
188
Tucson
132
221
258
168
21
150
Southwest Border Totals
17,109
28,642
41,523
15,383
7,079
10,910
Haitian Inadmissibles
Numbers below reflect totals for Fiscal Years 2014-2018, and 2019 TD
Haitian Inadmissibles
Field Office
FY 2014
FY 2015
FY 2016
FY 2017
FY 2018
FY 19TD APR
El Paso
1
0
2
18
0
0
Laredo
6
1
6
160
2
1
San Diego
477
333
6,377
8,057
294
664
Tucson
0
0
39
960
1
0
Southwest Border Totals
484
334
6,424
9,195
297
665
Southwest Border Inadmissibles Fiscal Year 2019 – By Month
FMUA: Family Unit Inadmissible
UAC: Unaccompanied Alien Children
AMC: Accompanied Minor Child
SA: Single Adult
FMUA
UAC
AMC
SA
TOTAL
Field Offices
FY 2019 OCT
FY 2019 OCT
FY 2019 OCT
FY 2019 OCT
FY 2019 OCT
El Paso
835
84
4
580
1,503
Laredo
1,179
71
67
2,370
3,687
San Diego
1,303
180
5
1,645
3,133
Tucson
861
118
10
458
1,447
Total
4,178
453
86
5,053
9,770
Cuban and Haitian Inadmissibles*
Cubans
Haitians
Field Offices
FY 2019 OCT
FY 2019 OCT
El Paso
166
0
Laredo
795
0
San Diego
35
37
Tucson
19
0
Total
1,015
37
*Note: Cuban and Haitian inadmissibles are a subset of the total Southwest Border inadmissibles data above.