Immigration Enforcement

Encounters with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) include three things:

• People who unlawfully attempt to cross the border between ports of entry
• People who attempt to enter at a port of entry but are inadmissible
• Title 42 expulsions due to COVID-19

This is a Key Homeland Security Metric (KHSM).

Certain noncitizens in removal proceedings are detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Our detentions data describe initial book-ins to and final book-outs from ICE detention and do not include those in CBP custody.

This is a Key Homeland Security Metric (KHSM).

When DHS sends a noncitizen back to their country of citizenship or a third country, it is called repatriation. It can be a removal (which carries administrative penalties), a return (which does not carry administrative penalties), or an expulsion under the Title 42 public health order which was in effect from March 2020 until May 2023.

This Key Homeland Security Metric (KHSM) includes data on all DHS repatriations, including those completed by ICE or CBP (both U.S. Border Patrol and the Office of Field Operations).

This set of tables includes monthly data on immigration enforcement including encounters, CBP One appointments, administrative arrests, book-out outcomes, book-ins, detention, removals, returns, repatriations. It also includes data on credible fear screenings and parole processes.

This annual report presents data and analysis of immigration enforcement actions including CBP Office of Field Operations determinations of inadmissibility; CBP U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions; ICE administrative arrests and intakes into immigration detention; and DHS-wide initiations of removal proceedings, repatriations, and expulsions.

This monthly report describes processing and outcomes under a new rule–to ensure those subject to expedited removal who are eligible for asylum are granted relief quickly and those who are not are promptly removed–for noncitizens identified as potentially suitable for placement in the rule, as well as demographic information about the population placed in the rule.

This report series provides the most comprehensive, rigorous set of border security metrics ever produced by DHS, along with a thorough discussion of the strengths and limitations of the Department’s available methodological approaches.

This report includes information on the ages of all minors being separated from their family units, the nature of administrative or criminal charges filed against adult family members, as well as how often family units apprehended together are detained in ICE custody or referred to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement.

This report describes numbers of border encounters and the Department’s enforcement response.

This report describes recent and ongoing efforts by DHS and USBP to better estimate southwest border security between POEs and to increase situational awareness at the border.

This report series matches unique border encounters to their associated enforcement outcomes.

These reports describe Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) processing and outcomes for noncitizens enrolled in MPP within given time periods, summarizing information on enrollee nationalities, fear claims, vaccinations, and processing outcomes (returns to Mexico or disenrollments) by month of MPP enrollment.

This is an annual collection of tables on foreign nationals. It includes data on lawful immigration and immigration enforcement actions.