Congress has directed the DHS Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans to report on the end-to-end enforcement lifecycle. The Office of Homeland Security Statistics' (OHSS) Enforcement Lifecycle methodology matches unique border encounters to their associated enforcement outcomes.

About this Report

The FY 2021 report describes the final or most current enforcement outcomes, as of December 31, 2021, associated with the 5.7 million Southwest Border encounters occurring between 2013 and 2021. Encounters are analyzed by nationality, family status, and detention histories. The majority (56 percent) of pre-pandemic encounters had resulted in repatriation by December 31, 2022, while 68 percent of pandemic era encounters has resulted either in repatriations under Title 8 authority or in immediate expulsion under Title 42 public health authority. The report further examines enforcement trends over time by comparing enforcement outcomes at fixed time intervals following encounters occurring from 2013 to 2018.