Border Apprehensions Surge to Almost 1.9 Million in 2021—Up from 479,000 in 2020

Border Patrol agents apprehend and transport illegal immigrants who have just crossed the river into La Joya, Texas, on Nov. 17, 2021. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

Border Patrol agents ended the year with another record-breaking month of illegal alien apprehensions.

More than 170,000 illegal border crossers were apprehended along the U.S.–Mexico border in December 2021, bringing the total for the calendar year close to 1.9 million, according to data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP). It doesn’t include the number of aliens who were determined to be inadmissable at a port of entry, which pushes the total beyond 2 million.