HLS.Today – 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. Our 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.
Visit CBP’s Southwest Border Migration page for demographic information regarding apprehensions and inadmissible on the southwest border and the Assaults and Use of Force page for data on assaults on agents and officers, and uses of force by CBP personnel.
Total CBP Enforcement Actions
Numbers below reflect Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 – FY 2022.
Fiscal Year 2022 runs October 01, 2021 – September 30, 2022.
| FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22YTD | |
| Office of Field Operations (OFO) Total Encounters1 | 216,370 | 281,881 | 288,523 | 241,786 | 294,352 | 488,695 |
| U.S. Border Patrol Total Encounters2 | 310,531 | 404,142 | 859,501 | 405,036 | 1,662,167 | 2,005,026 |
| Total Enforcement Actions | 526,901 | 683,178 | 1,148,024 | 646,822 | 1,956,519 | 2,493,721 |
1 Beginning in March FY20, OFO Encounters statistics include both Title 8 Inadmissibles and Title 42 Expulsions. To learn more, visit Title-8-and-Title-42-Statistics. Inadmissibles refers to 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.
2 Beginning in March FY20, USBP Encounters statistics include both Title 8 Apprehensions and Title 42 Expulsions. To learn more, visit Title-8-and-Title-42-Statistics. Apprehensions refers to the physical control or temporary detainment of a person who is not lawfully in the U.S. which may or may not result in an arrest.
Search and Rescue Efforts
CBP agents frequently conduct life-saving efforts, while carrying out their respective missions. Numbers below reflect Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 – FY 2022.
Fiscal Year 2022 runs October 01, 2021 – September 30, 2022.
Arrests of Individuals with Criminal Convictions or Those Wanted by Law Enforcement
Numbers below reflect FY 2017 – FY 2022.
Fiscal Year 2022 runs October 01, 2021 – September 30, 2022.
| FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22YTD | |
| Office of Field Operations | ||||||
| Criminal Noncitizens Encountered3 | 10,596 | 11,623 | 12,705 | 7,009 | 6,567 | 15,558 |
| NCIC4 Arrests | 7,656 | 5,929 | 8,546 | 7,108 | 8,979 | 9,431 |
| U.S. Border Patrol | ||||||
| Criminal Noncitizens Encountered3 | 8,531 | 6,698 | 4,269 | 2,438 | 10,763 | 10,778 |
| Criminal Noncitizens with Outstanding Wants or Warrants | 2,675 | 1,550 | 4,153 | 2,054 | 1,904 | 836 |
3 Criminal noncitizens refers to noncitizens 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 noncitizens 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 noncitizens are a subset of total apprehensions. See U.S. Border Patrol Criminal Noncitizen Statistics for a breakdown of criminal noncitizen stats by type of conviction.
4 NCIC (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.
HLS.Today - CBP Enforcement Statistics Fiscal Year 2022
HLS.Today Source: CBP.GOV
