Analysis of the Fiscal Year 2020 Enforcement Lifecycle Report

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DHS Releases Detailed Immigration Data
Release Date:
December 31, 2020

Comprehensive Lifecycle Report Reveals Significant Discrepancy of Outcomes of Encounters with Aliens at the Southwest Border Between 2014 and 2019

Washington, D.C. – Today the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the Fiscal Year 2020 Enforcement Lifecycle Report, which provides a comprehensive analysis of enforcement outcomes for aliens encountered at the Southwest Border during Fiscal Years 2014 through 2019.  Unlike previous DHS reports, the Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS) Enforcement Lifecycle methodology links records across 19 different DHS and Department of Justice (DOJ) source systems to match each unique border encounter to its associated final or most current enforcement outcome and so provides a complete end-to-end view of immigration enforcement.

“The Trump Administration has worked tirelessly to fix our broken immigration system,” said Acting DHS Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli. “With this comprehensive report the Department analyzes the patterns of flow, the demographic backgrounds, and other factors so we can see areas for improvement, where to close loopholes and more effectively enforce the laws that allow for the removal of illegal aliens and those who are trying to game our immigration system.”

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/12/31/dhs-releases-detailed-immigration-data

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Analysis of the Fiscal Year 2020 Enforcement Lifecycle Report
Proving what we have been saying, and what smugglers already know
By Andrew R. Arthur on January 7, 2021

My last post explained the methodology behind the "Fiscal Year 2020 Enforcement Lifecycle Report", issued by DHS on December 31 (available from DHS here and to download from the CIS site here). This post analyzes some of the statistics therein. That report shows what my colleagues and I have been saying about the ultimate results of CBP "encounters" at the Southwest border, and what smugglers already know: Detention works, and certain groups — even if they are stopped by CBP at that border — will be released from custody or never detained, and thereafter remain in the United States, usually indefinitely. These are major pull factors for illegal migration, creating a "vicious circle" of catch and release.

Findings of the Lifecycle Report

In his message accompanying that 21-page report, Acting DHS Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli explains that along the Southwest border between FY 2014 and FY 2019, Border Patrol agents apprehended 2.8 million aliens, and CBP officers (CBPOs) at the ports there determined that an additional 725,000 aliens were inadmissible — more than 3.5 million CBP "encounters", all told.

By the end of March 2020, just more than 59 percent of those border encounters had been "resolved" through either removal or repatriation (51 percent, 1.8 million aliens) or an order of relief or protection (8.1 percent, or 284,000 aliens). That means that about 40 percent of the aliens encountered by CBP between FY 2014 and FY 2019 at the border are still in the United States, in an unresolved immigration status (either still in proceedings, or remaining here under — or notwithstanding — a final order of removal).

https://cis.org/Arthur/Analysis-Fiscal-Year-2020-Enforcement-Lifecycle-Report