CBP Enforcement Statistics FY2018

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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.

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.

The following is a summary of CBP enforcement actions related to inadmissibles, apprehensions, arrests of individuals with criminal convictions and individuals who have been apprehended multiple times crossing the border illegally.

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.

TOTAL CBP ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

Numbers below reflect FY2016 and FY2017 totals, FY2018TD (October 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018)
FY2016 FY2017 FY2018TD
OFFICE OF FIELD OPERATIONS (OFO)
Total Inadmissibles1 274,821 199,844 133,370
U.S. BORDER PATROL
Total Apprehensions2 415,816 310,531 215,864
Total Enforcement Actions 690,637 487,481 349,234
1Inadmissibles 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

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.


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ARRESTS OF INDIVIDUALS WITH CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS OR THOSE WANTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT


DRUG SEIZURES


GANG AFFILIATED ENFORCEMENT


U.S. BORDER PATROL RECIDIVISM RATES


https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/c...ent-statistics