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CBP Enforcement Statistics FY 2019

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the nation’s largest federal law enforcement agency charged with securing the nation’s borders and facilitating international travel and trade. Our top priority is to keep terrorists and their weapons from entering the United States.

At the nation’s more than 300 ports of entry, CBP officers have a complex mission with broad law enforcement authorities tied to screening all foreign visitors, returning American citizens and imported cargo that enters the U.S. Along the nation’s borders, the United States Border Patrol and Air and Marine Operations are the uniformed law enforcement arms of CBP responsible for securing U.S. borders between ports of entry.

The following is a summary of CBP enforcement actions related to inadmissibles, apprehensions, arrests of individuals with criminal convictions and individuals who have been apprehended multiple times crossing the border illegally.

Visit CBP's Southwest Border Migration page for demographic information regarding apprehensions and inadmissibles on the southwest border and the Use of Force page for use-of-force statistics and case summaries.

Total CBP Enforcement Actions

Numbers below reflect Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 - FY 2019.

Office of Field Operations (OFO) and U.S. Border Patrol Actions
  FY17 FY18 FY19
Office of Field Operations (OFO) Total Inadmissibles 1 216,370 281,881 288,523
U.S. Border Patrol Total Apprehensions 2 310,531 404,142 859,501
Total Enforcement Actions 526,901 683,178 1,148,024

1Inadmissibles refers to individuals encountered at ports of entry who are seeking lawful admission into the United States but are determined to be inadmissible, individuals presenting themselves to seek humanitarian protection under our laws, and individuals who withdraw an application for admission and return to their countries of origin within a short timeframe.
2Apprehensions refers to the physical control or temporary detainment of a person who is not lawfully in the U.S. which may or may not result in an arrest.

OFFICE OF FIELD OPERATIONS and U.S. BORDER PATROL

  FY17 FY18 FY19
OFFICE OF FIELD OPERATIONS Criminal Aliens3 Encountered 10,596 11,623 12,705
NCIC4 Arrests 7,656 5,929 8,546
U.S. BORDER PATROL Criminal Aliens 3 Encountered 8,531 6,698 4,269
Criminal Aliens with Outstanding Wants or Warrants 2,675 1,550 4,153

Arrests of Individuals with Criminal Convictions or Those Wanted by Law Enforcement

Numbers below reflect FY 2017 - FY 2019

3Criminal Aliens refers to aliens who have been convicted of crime, whether in the United States or abroad, so long as the conviction is for conduct which is deemed criminal by the United States. Criminal aliens encountered at ports of entry are inadmissible, absent extenuating circumstances, and represent a subset of total OFO inadmissibles. U.S. Border Patrol arrests of criminal aliens are a subset of total apprehensions. See U.S. Border Patrol Criminal Alien Statistics for a breakdown of criminal alien stats by type of conviction.
4NCIC (National Crime Information Center) arrests refers to the number of CBP arrests of individuals, including U.S. citizens, who are wanted by other law enforcement agencies.

Office of Field Operations Nationwide Currency Seizures

Numbers below reflect FY 2015 - FY 2019

  FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19
Amount (USD) $75,964,824 $62,101,328 $65,002,856 $63,691,464 $68,879,080

Nationwide Monthly Office of Field Operations Currency Seizures

Numbers below reflect FY 2018 and FY 2019

  FY18 FY19
October $6,198,201 $4,190,389
November $4,303,600 $4,360,441
December $4,907,494 $4,415,486
January $5,194,829 $7,836,948
February $4,604,973 $5,574,578
March $4,894,285 $5,581,107
April $13,424,674 $13,733,814
May $4,024,325 $4,739,178
June $3,168,422 $4,607,755
July $4,503,412 $4,439,385
August $4,249,027 $5,442,547
September $4,218,223 $3,957,451
Total $63,691,464 $68,879,080

U.S. Border Patrol Nationwide Currency Seizures FY 2015 - FY 2019

  FY 15 FY 16 FY 17 FY 18 FY 19
Amount (USD) $4,741,288 $7,924,537 $5,869,004 $7,176,142 $6,805,695

Monthly U.S. Border Patrol Nationwide Checkpoint Currency Seizures

Numbers below reflect FY 2018 - FY 2019

  FY 18 FY 19
October  $35,829 $49,247
November $26,285 $51,269
December $2,822 $63,697
January $203,213 $59,857
February $117,933 $103,982
March $157,669 $110,924
April $17,913 $15,016
May $256,033 $129,766
June $31,494 $119,732
July  $14,339 $86,696
August $169,592 $141,475
September $80,358 $33,487
Total $1,113,480 $965,148

 

Office of Field Operations Nationwide Drug Seizures

Numbers below reflect FY 2014 - FY 2019

  FY 14 FY 15 FY 16 FY 17 FY 18 FY 19
Cocaine 45,323 38,346 52,838 62,415 51,592 89,207
Heroin 4,356 6,023 4,224 3,398 5,205 5,427
Marijuana 438,146 602,821 516,122 366,627 299.419 289,529
Methamphetamine 19,613 25,495 33,086 46,247 57,440 68,585
Fentanyl  n/a 70 596 1,875 1,895 2,545

*weights are in pounds (lb)

Monthly Office of Field Operations Nationwide Drug Seizures FY 2019

  Marijuana Cocaine Heroin Methamphetamine Fentanyl Other
October 8,808 3,156 469 3,958 139 16,761
November 29,893 4,129 326 3,696 122 8,986
December 24,474 6,703 321 3,585 76 8,298
January 11,324 2,440 273 4,743 343 12,803
February 21,636 9,215 322 5,820 172 15,088
March 25,514 5,872 504 5,515 245 8,561
April 17,062 1,413 503 5,935 224 14,806
May 21,352 5,287 418 6,172 380 12,731
June 48,159 41,419 447 7,991 265 11,095
July 18,714 2,266 349 7,282 133 13,940
August 47,748 4,076 625 6,892 251 12,028
September 14,845 3,229 869 6,696 195 13,085

*weights are in pounds (lb)

U.S. Border Patrol Nationwide Drug Seizures FY 2014 - FY 2019

  FY 14 FY 15 FY 16 FY 17 FY 18 FY 19
Cocaine 4,554 11,220 5,473 9,346 6,550 11,682
Heroin 606 518 566 953 568 808
Marijuana 1,922,545 1,538,307 1,294,052 861,231 461,030 266,882
Methamphetamine 3,930 6,443 8,224 10,328 11,314 14,434
Fentanyl  n/a n/a 105 181 388 226

*weights are in pounds (lb)

Monthly U.S. Border Patrol Nationwide Checkpoint Drug Seizures FY 2019

  Cocaine Heroin Marijuana Methamphetamine Fentanyl Other
October 121 1 1,546 600 0 4
November 48 15 1,180 473 15 5
December 140 5 2,507 258 0 422
January 259 3 2,802 542 16 5
February 197 44 3,929 646 20 52
March 87 2 2,197 324 1 16
April 368 116 1,758 349 31 4
May 133 25 980 2,079 0 7
June 82 48 4,202 724 18 9
July 175 130 980 1,283 11 6
August 432 37 4,451 1,232 13 13
September 294 92 3,128 658 4 210

*weights are in pounds (lb)

U.S. Border Patrol Nationwide Apprehensions by Gang Affiliation

Numbers below reflect FY 2015 - FY 2019

Gang Affiliation FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19
107th St 0 0 0 1  0
18th Street 84 47 61 145 168
Angelino Heights Sureno 13 0 0 1 0  0
Bandidos 0 4 0 0  0
Barrio Azteca 6 0 3 4  0
Barrio Van Nuys 0 0 0 0 1
Border Brothers 0 0 0 1 1
Brown Pride 0 0 0 0  0
Chirizos 0 0 0 1  0
Folk Nation 0 1 0 0  0
Hard Times 13 0 1 0 0  0
Hells Angels 0 0 0 0 1
Hermanos Pistoleros Latinos (HPL) 2 18 3 2 2
Latin Kings 16 0 6 7 24
Locos Surenos Trece 0 1 0 1  0
Los Traviosos 0 0 0 0 1
Los Zetas 0 1 0 0  0
MS-13 335 253 228 413 464
Mara 18 0 0 0 1 2
Mara-R 0 0 1 1
Maravilla Salva Trucha 0 1 0 2  0
Market Street 0 0 0 0 1
Mexican Mafia 4 6 4 3 7
Mexicles 0 0 0 0  0
Mexikanemi 2 0 3 0  0
Nortenos 14 5 6 5 6
Other 154 136 90 82 110
Outlaws 0 0 0 0  0
Paisas 73 119 53 62 90
Partido Revolucionario Mexican (PRM) 0 0 0 0 1
Playboys 0 1 0 0  0
San Fernando Valley Gang 0 0 0 0 1
South Los Angeles 0 0 0 1  0
Southwest Cholos 0 0 0 0 1
Surenos (sur-13) 140 90 66 66 70
Tango Blast 14 16 8 8 20
Texas Syndicate 0 3 1 1 3
Vallucos 0 0 0 0 1
Vilanos-13 0 0 0 1
West Park 0 0 1 0
Westside         1
Zetas 0 0 1 1
Total 844 702 536 808 976

 

  FY 14 FY 15 FY 16 FY 17 FY 18 FY 19
Recidivism5 14% 14% 12% 10% 11% 7%

5Recidivism refers to percentage of individuals apprehended more than one time by the Border Patrol within a fiscal year.

Last Modified: May 08, 2023