America's crime record
Immigration enforcement
Border encounters
691,906
encounters, 2025 · Down 76% from 2024
Timeline
People CBP stopped: Border Patrol apprehensions between ports and people found inadmissible at ports, summed by CrimeDB from CBP's own rows.
Source and method
FY2020 to FY2023 include Title 42 expulsions. These are enforcement actions, not crimes.
No rate. An encounter counts an event, not a person, and many are people who never lived here.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Federal fiscal year · 2020 to 2025
- 2024Title 42 expulsions ended May 11, 2023; from FY2024 every encounter is a Title 8 action
Breakdown
Encounters by encounter type, 2025
| Found inadmissible at a port | 63%437,723 | 437,723 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Border Patrol apprehensions | 37%254,183 | 254,183 |
All 691,906 encounters in 2025.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Every figure as a table
Border encounters, encounters, by year
| Year | Count | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 691,906 | |
| 2024 | 2,901,142 | |
| 2023 | 3,201,144 | |
| 2022 | 2,766,582 | |
| 2021 | 1,956,519 | |
| 2020 | 646,822 |
No rate. An encounter counts an event, not a person, and many are people who never lived here.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Federal fiscal year
Encounters by encounter type, 2025
| Encounter type | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Found inadmissible at a port | 437,723 | 63% |
| Border Patrol apprehensions | 254,183 | 37% |
All 691,906 encounters in 2025.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Encounters by border, 2025
| Border | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Southwest land border | 443,671 | 64% |
| Northern land border | 85,746 | 12% |
| Air and sea ports, and other | 162,489 | 24% |
All 691,906 encounters in 2025.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Encounters by who was stopped, 2025
| Who was stopped | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Single adults | 503,088 | 73% |
| Family members | 157,572 | 23% |
| Children alone | 29,584 | 4% |
| Children with an adult not a parent | 1,662 | <1% |
All 691,906 encounters in 2025.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Encounters by law used, 2025
| Law used | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Title 8 (immigration law) | 691,906 | 100% |
All 691,906 encounters in 2025.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Encounters by country of citizenship, 2025
| Country of citizenship | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| MEXICO | 188,334 | 27% |
| VENEZUELA | 66,944 | 10% |
| GUATEMALA | 40,617 | 6% |
| HONDURAS | 36,732 | 5% |
| INDIA | 34,146 | 5% |
| CUBA | 33,056 | 5% |
| CANADA | 32,639 | 5% |
| PHILIPPINES | 31,060 | 5% |
| CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF | 29,636 | 4% |
| COLOMBIA | 24,609 | 4% |
| EL SALVADOR | 14,221 | 2% |
| UKRAINE | 13,443 | 2% |
| ECUADOR | 12,959 | 2% |
| HAITI | 12,282 | 2% |
| RUSSIA | 9,064 | 1% |
| BRAZIL | 5,666 | 1% |
| TURKEY | 5,192 | 1% |
| PERU | 5,153 | 1% |
| MYANMAR (BURMA) | 3,943 | 1% |
| NICARAGUA | 3,452 | 1% |
| ROMANIA | 924 | <1% |
| OTHER | 87,834 | 13% |
All 691,906 encounters in 2025.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection