Ten Times More Nicaraguans Encountered on SW Border in Two Months Than in All of FY 2020 U.S. Customs and Border Protection recorded almost half as many “encounters” with illegal Nicaraguan migrants on the southwest border in the first two months of Fiscal Year 2022 as it did for the entire FY 2021 – and ten times more encounters than for the entire FY 2020.
In October and November this year, CBP recorded 22,843 apprehensions of migrants from Nicaragua. By contrast, 50,109 encounters with Nicaraguans were recorded for the whole of FY 2021, and just 2,291 for the whole of FY 2020.
According to November data released by the CBP on Friday, a record-high 173,620 encounters with migrants along the southwest border were recorded during November, a 140 percent increase from the 72,113 in November 2020. Numbers for the previous two Novembers, in 2019 and 2018, were 42,643 and 62,469 respectively.
The CBP provides data on “encounters” with illegal migrants rather than the number of actual individuals apprehended, because it says many migrants make multiple attempts to cross the border and get into the United States.
While there were 173,620 encounters recorded in November, the number of “unique individuals encountered” was 127,653, it said. Twenty-five percent of the encounters involved individuals who had had at least one prior encounter with agents during the previous 12-month period..................
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