“As part of our planning for the end of the Title 42 public health order, we have surged resources, technology, and personnel to safely and orderly manage challenges along the southern border – while at the same time, maintaining a persistent focus on our other missions to ensure national and economic security,” said CBP Acting Commissioner Troy A. Miller. “The CBP workforce -including the U.S. Border Patrol and the Office of Field Operations- have the experience and professionalism to continue to adapt to changing dynamics. Along with the support of personnel from across DHS and across the federal government, we will continue to meet the moment.”

CBP Southwest Border Enforcement Numbers for April 2023

CBP’s overall encounters along the southwest border in April 2023 totaled 211,401, up 10% from 191,956 in March 2023. Similarly, U.S. Border Patrol’s 182,114 encounters between ports of entry along the southwest border in April were up 12% over March. This increase in encounters from March to April is typical. However, in April 2023, southwest border encounter totals for CBP overall and Border Patrol decreased 11% and 10.5% respectively from April 2022.

Among CBP’s 211,401 encounters in April, single adult encounters increased by 5% compared to March, unaccompanied children decreased 7%, and family unit individuals increased by 28%.

• Over two-thirds (67%) of all southwest land border encounters were single adults, with 140,678 encounters in April, a 5% increase compared to March.
• 74,027 encounters, 35% of the total, were processed for expulsion under Title 42. 137,374 encounters were processed under Title 8.
  • 65,406 encounters involving single adults (46% of all single adult encounters) were processed for expulsion under Title 42, with 75,272 processed under Title 8 (54% of all single adult encounters).
  • 8,405 encounters involving family unit individuals (14% of all family unit individuals) were processed for expulsion under Title 42, with 50,559 processed under Title 8 (86% of all family unit individuals).
• In April 2023, there were 48,243 (23%) repeat encounters and 139,369 (66%) unique encounters. The number of unique individuals encountered in April 2023 was 139,369 compared to 119,053 in March 2023, a 17% increase in the number of unique individuals encountered the prior month.
• Of those, 23% involved individuals who had at least one prior encounter in the previous 12 months, compared to an average one-year re-encounter rate of 14% for FY2014-2019.

Unaccompanied Children

• Encounters of unaccompanied children decreased 7%, with 11,478 encounters in April compared with 12,361 in March. In April, the average number of unaccompanied children in CBP custody was 500 per day, compared with an average of 464 per day in March.

Family Unit individuals

• Encounters of family unit individuals increased by 28% from 45,891 in March to 58,964 in April—which is a 32% decrease from the peak of 86,631 in August 2021.

During April 2023, 28,738 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (including immediate family members where applicable) were paroled into the country by CBP’s Office of Field Operations through the parole processes established for Venezuelans in October and expanded to the additional nationalities in January. Arrivals of noncitizens via these processes, which include careful vetting and require a supporter present in the Unites States, are a testament to the benefit of these lawful processes in promoting safe and orderly migration while reducing encounters along the southwest border.  

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