Venezuelans topped Mexicans for the largest group of nationals arrested for crossing the US southern border illegally for the first time on record in September.
According to its latest monthly report released Saturday, US Customs and Border Protection recorded 218,763 encounters of people of all nationalities between ports of entry along the southwest border in September 2023, representing a 21% increase from the 181,084 illegal immigrants apprehended in August.
Venezuelans were arrested 54,833 times by the Border Patrol after entering from Mexico in September, more than double the 22,090 arrests in August and well above the previous monthly high of 33,749 arrests in September 2022. For decades, Mexicans accounted for the majority of illegal crossings but the trend has shifted over the past decade to Central America and, more recently, to people from South America, Africa and Asia.
Mexican nationals were arrested 39,733 times crossing the border in September, far behind Venezuela. Guatemala, Honduras and Colombia complete the top five.
The Biden administration recently announced temporary legal status for nearly 500,000 Venezuelans already in the United States on July 31, while vowing to deport those who came illegally after that date and failed to obtain asylum. It recently began deportation flights to Venezuela as part of a diplomatic thaw with the government of Nicolás Maduro, a longtime foe. The US “increased resources and personnel” to the border in September, said Troy Miller, acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.
A new report from US Customs and Border Protection follows Biden’s $14B request to improve border security.Getty Images
“We continue to engage with domestic and international partners to address historic hemispheric migration, including large groups of migrants traveling by freight train, and to enforce its consequences, including by preparing for direct repatriation to Venezuela,” Miller said. .
CBP recorded 53,296 encounters involving Mexican nationals along the southwest land border, down from 55,493 Mexican migrants in August 2023, and 63,431 in September 2022. This includes both people apprehended crossing illegally and those processed at ports of entry along the border US-Mexico.
There were 4,042 encounters of Chinese nationals along the southwest land border in September, compared to 2,379 in August.
There has been a sharp increase in Venezuelan immigrants, and the number of arrests has more than doubled in a month. US Customs and Border Protection
In September 2022, there were only 399 encounters involving Chinese nationals.
CBP recorded 1,779 encounters with Russians in September, down from 2,099 in August. In September 2022, there were 2,617 encounters of Russians on the southwestern border.
So far this year, there have been nearly 2.5 million encounters along the US-Mexico border, according to CBP statistics, and about 1.5 million of those were single adults.
The September total is nearing an all-time high of 222,018 encounters recorded in December 2022, according to CBP. Arrests for the government’s budget year that ended Sept. 30 topped 2 million for the second year in a row, down 7% from an all-time high of more than 2.2 million arrests in the same period a year earlier, according to the Associated Press.
About 43,000 immigrants entered the country at land crossings with Mexico in September using a mobile app called CBP One, bringing the total to nearly 278,000 since the online appointment system began in January. In addition, more than 265,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela entered the airport through September after applying online with financial sponsors. Including those routes, the number of crossings reached a new all-time monthly high of 269,735 in September and a new budget year high of nearly 2.5 million.
The Biden administration proposed about $14 billion for the border in a $106 billion spending package announced Friday.
Border officials detained 18 people on the FBI’s terrorism watch list in September, making fiscal year 2023 a record year for such encounters at the southern border.
According to CBP statistics released Saturday, 169 people on the FBI’s terrorist watch list were found between points of entry at the southern border in the past 12 months, a number that exceeded not only the record-setting total of FY 22 (98) but the last six fiscals. years combined.
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