America's crime record
Immigration enforcement
Apprehensions
2,818,660
enforcement actions, 2023 · Up 9.1% from 2022
Timeline
DHS apprehensions and arrests of people deportable or inadmissible, FY1925 on.
Source and method
What is counted grows over time (ICE arrests from 2008, port encounters from 2012, Title 42 expulsions 2020 to 2023); each change is marked.
No rate. Most are stopped at or near the border, not drawn from people living here.
DHS Office of Homeland Security Statistics · Federal fiscal year · 1925 to 2023
- 1952From FY1952 the count adds HSI (then INS investigations) administrative arrests to Border Patrol apprehensions
- 1977From FY1977 the federal fiscal year runs October to September; FY1976 holds 15 months
- 2006From FY2006 the count adds ERO's fugitive operations arrests
- 2008From FY2008 the count adds every ERO administrative arrest
- 2012From FY2012 the count adds OFO enforcement encounters at ports of entry (from the FY2021 yearbook on: FY2012, 671,327 before and 795,735 after)
- 2014From FY2014 ERO arrests follow ERO's method, where several arrests of one person in a day can count
- 2020FY2020 to FY2023 include Title 42 expulsions
Every figure as a table
Apprehensions, enforcement actions, by year
| Year | Count | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2,818,660 | |
| 2022 | 2,584,220 | |
| 2021 | 1,865,379 | |
| 2020 | 609,280 | |
| 2019 | 1,175,841 | |
| 2018 | 739,486 | |
| 2017 | 607,677 | |
| 2016 | 683,782 | |
| 2015 | 598,350 | |
| 2014 | 807,320 | |
| 2013 | 786,223 | |
| 2012 | 795,735 | |
| 2011 | 678,606 | |
| 2010 | 796,587 | |
| 2009 | 889,212 | |
| 2008 | 1,043,759 | |
| 2007 | 960,673 | |
| 2006 | 1,206,408 | |
| 2005 | 1,291,065 | |
| 2004 | 1,264,232 | |
| 2003 | 1,046,422 | |
| 2002 | 1,062,270 | |
| 2001 | 1,387,486 | |
| 2000 | 1,814,729 | |
| 1999 | 1,714,035 | |
| 1998 | 1,679,439 | |
| 1997 | 1,536,520 | |
| 1996 | 1,649,986 | |
| 1995 | 1,394,554 | |
| 1994 | 1,094,719 | |
| 1993 | 1,327,261 | |
| 1992 | 1,258,481 | |
| 1991 | 1,197,875 | |
| 1990 | 1,169,939 | |
| 1989 | 954,243 | |
| 1988 | 1,008,145 | |
| 1987 | 1,190,488 | |
| 1986 | 1,767,400 | |
| 1985 | 1,348,749 | |
| 1984 | 1,246,981 | |
| 1983 | 1,251,357 | |
| 1982 | 970,246 | |
| 1981 | 975,780 | |
| 1980 | 910,361 | |
| 1979 | 1,076,418 | |
| 1978 | 1,057,977 | |
| 1977 | 1,042,215 | |
| 1976 | 1,097,739 | Source flag: fifteen months |
| 1975 | 766,600 | |
| 1974 | 788,145 | |
| 1973 | 655,968 | |
| 1972 | 505,949 | |
| 1971 | 420,126 | |
| 1970 | 345,353 | |
| 1969 | 283,557 | |
| 1968 | 212,057 | |
| 1967 | 161,608 | |
| 1966 | 138,520 | |
| 1965 | 110,371 | |
| 1964 | 86,597 | |
| 1963 | 88,712 | |
| 1962 | 92,758 | |
| 1961 | 88,823 | |
| 1960 | 70,684 | |
| 1959 | 45,336 | |
| 1958 | 53,474 | |
| 1957 | 59,918 | |
| 1956 | 87,696 | |
| 1955 | 254,096 | |
| 1954 | 1,089,583 | |
| 1953 | 885,587 | |
| 1952 | 543,535 | |
| 1951 | 509,040 | |
| 1950 | 468,339 | |
| 1949 | 288,253 | |
| 1948 | 192,779 | |
| 1947 | 193,657 | |
| 1946 | 99,591 | |
| 1945 | 69,164 | |
| 1944 | 31,174 | |
| 1943 | 11,175 | |
| 1942 | 11,784 | |
| 1941 | 11,294 | |
| 1940 | 10,492 | |
| 1939 | 12,037 | |
| 1938 | 12,851 | |
| 1937 | 13,054 | |
| 1936 | 11,728 | |
| 1935 | 11,016 | |
| 1934 | 10,319 | |
| 1933 | 20,949 | |
| 1932 | 22,735 | |
| 1931 | 22,276 | |
| 1930 | 20,880 | |
| 1929 | 32,711 | |
| 1928 | 23,566 | |
| 1927 | 16,393 | |
| 1926 | 12,735 | |
| 1925 | 22,199 |
No rate. Most are stopped at or near the border, not drawn from people living here.
DHS Office of Homeland Security Statistics · Federal fiscal year