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Are 250,000 people crossing the Southern U.S. border every month?

By Ngan Nguyen
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According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, there were 2,206,436 total border encounters in fiscal year 2022 (October 2021 to September 2022), which averages out to about 184,000 per month. In fiscal year 2021, there were 1,659,206 encounters, which averages out to about 138,000 per month.

In fiscal year 2022, more than 562,000 people were encountered at the Arizona border. On average, this means agents encountered 46,800 people at the border per month.This is a substantial increase from fiscal year 2021, when more than 305,000 people tried to cross the border in the Yuma and Tucson regions.

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