Venezuelans surpassed Mexicans in the largest group of nationals arrested for illegally crossing the southern border of the United States for the first time on record in the month of September.
According to its latest monthly report released Saturday, U.S. 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 captured in August.
Venezuelans were arrested 54,833 times by 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 represented the vast majority of illegal crossings. But in the last decade the flows shifted towards Central Americans and, more recently, towards people from South America, Africa and Asia.
Mexicans were arrested 39,733 times crossing the border in September, far behind Venezuelans. Guatemalans, Hondurans and Colombians completed the top five.
The Biden administration recently announced temporary legal status for nearly 500,000 Venezuelans who were already in the United States on July 31, while promising to deport those who arrive illegally after that date and do not obtain asylum. He recently began deportation flights to Venezuela as part of a diplomatic thaw with the government of Nicolás Maduro, a long-time adversary. The United States “sent 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 comes on the heels of Biden’s request for $14 billion to increase border security.Getty Images
“We are continually collaborating with domestic and foreign partners to address historic hemispheric migration, including large groups of migrants traveling by freight trains, and to enforce the consequences, including preparing for direct repatriations to Venezuela,” Miller said.
CBP recorded 53,296 encounters involving Mexican citizens along the southwest land border, up from 55,493 Mexican migrants in August 2023 and 63,431 in September 2022. That includes both people apprehended crossing illegally and those processed at ports of entry along the US-Mexico border. .
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 more than double the number of arrests in one month. US Customs and Border Protection
In September 2022, there were only 399 encounters with Chinese citizens.
CBP recorded 1,779 encounters of Russian citizens in September, up from 2,099 in August. In September 2022, there were 2,617 Russian encounters on the southwest border.
So far this year, there have been nearly 2.5 million encounters along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to CBP statistics, and about 1.5 million of those people were single adults.
September’s total approached the all-time high of 222,018 encounters recorded in December 2022, according to CBP. Arrests during 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 migrants entered the country via 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 through airports until September after applying online with financial sponsors. Including those roads, the number of crossings reached a new monthly record high of 269,735 in September and a new annual budget 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 arrested 18 people on the FBI’s terrorist watch list in September, making fiscal 2023 a record year for such encounters on the southern border.
According to CBP statistics released Saturday, 169 people on the FBI’s terrorist watch list were encountered between southern border ports of entry in the past 12 months, a figure that exceeds not only the record FY22 total. (98), but also the last six fiscal years. years combined.
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