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2.3 million migrants were released into the country at the border between 2021 and 2023, compared to 6 million who were taken into custody by the CBP. [48] Over 1.5 million migrants were additionally recorded as "gotaways", detected illegally crossing the border while evading the CBP, up from about 521 thousand between 2017 and 2020. [49]
According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 8,050 people have died crossing the U.S–Mexico border between 1998 and 2020. [3] In 2005, more than 500 died across the entire U.S.–Mexico border. [8] The number of yearly border crossing deaths doubled from 1995 to 2005, [9] and has since declined and then risen. [3]
In September 2021, an incident occurred involving migrants from Haiti crossing into the United States at the Del Rio, Texas, sector of the Mexico–US border.President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris claimed the migrants were being whipped by horse-mounted US Border Patrol agents.
An unprecedented number of undocumented Indian immigrants are crossing U.S. borders on foot, according to new data from U.S.
U.S. Border Patrol arrested around 3,100 people crossing illegally, down roughly 20% from the days before, the official said, requesting anonymity to discuss preliminary figures.
Arrests of migrants crossing the border have fallen 14 percent from May's record high, driven partly by U.S. agents in Central America helping to nab smugglers.
The U.S. Border Patrol made more than 1.7 million arrests of migrants crossing the U.S.–Mexico border illegally in fiscal year 2021, the highest number ever recorded. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] In September 2024, it was reported that about 8 million "encounters" (attempts to cross successfully met and denied by border patrol) had occurred at the Mexican ...
On an average day this week, border agents in the El Paso sector, which covers west Texas and New Mexico, have caught fewer than 100 migrants crossing illegally — all thanks to the Trump border ...