Criminal Border Patrol Apprehensions Are Down Along the Border

Alex NowrastehBorder Patrol made405,036 apprehensions of approximately 324,029 unique individuals in the 2020 fiscal year, down from859,501 apprehensions of approximately 799,336 unique individuals in 2019. In 2020, Border Patrol arrested2,438 criminal aliens convicted of 3,150 crimes. Of those 3,150 convictions, 40 percent were for immigration offenses while the remainder were for more serious crimes. Thus, approximately 1,463 of the 2,438 criminal aliens arrested for Border Patrol had committed non ‐​immigration crimes. Of the 324,029 unique individuals apprehended by Border Patrol, the 1,463 criminal aliens with non‐​immigration crimes accounted for about 0.45 percent of all aliens apprehended by Border Patrol in 2020. In other words, less than one‐​half of one percent of the ille gal immigrants apprehended by Border Patrol had committed non‐​immigration crimes and about 0.75 percent had committed a crime including immigration crimes (Figure 1).Criminal aliens apprehended as a  percent of all apprehended illegal immigrants are up slightly in 2020 because the number of all people apprehended has roughly halved in the last year, but the total number of criminals apprehended is the lowest recorded. The number of criminal aliens apprehended is 43 percent lower than in 2019 a nd 87 percent lower than in 2015. In 2015, each Border Patrol agent apprehended one criminal alien on average. In 2020, only 1 in 8 Border Patrol agents apprehended a criminal alien on...
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