Biden-Harris Admin Caps Off Four Fiscal Years With Roughly 8.5 Million Southern Border Migrant Encounters

There were roughly 8.5 million migrant encounters along the U.S.-Mexico border during the four fiscal years of the Biden-Harris White House, bringing more clarity on the exact toll of the border crisis under the administration.

There were 101,790 migrant encounters at the southern border in September, the final month of fiscal year 2024, according to data released Tuesday by Customs and Border Protection (CBP). These figures include both migrants who crossed the southern border unlawfully and those who appeared at ports of entry.

There were roughly 2.1 million migrant encounters along the southern border in fiscal year 2024, the CBP data reveals. This final number puts the total figure of migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico during the Biden-Harris administration at roughly 8.5 million.

There were more than 1.5 million Border Patrol encounters between ports of entry — otherwise known as unlawful border crossings — in fiscal year 2024. The figures were a decrease from the roughly two million and 2.2 million unlawful border crossings seen at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal years 2023 and 2022, respectively, according to the data.

CBP’s release of the September data is the latest border figure for the Biden-Harris administration, which oversaw an unprecedented border crisis during its time occupying the White House.

“You wouldn’t know it from the way President Biden, his ‘border czar,’ Vice President Harris, and their defenders in the media are talking about these numbers, but this was the second-worst year in terms of inadmissible alien encounters ever — only surpassed by the all-time record Biden and Harris set just last fiscal year,” House Homeland Committee Chairman Mark Green said Tuesday. “In terms of official encounters, this year was a disaster.”

“Every day, Americans are experiencing the consequences of the unchecked flow of inadmissible aliens into their communities,” Green continued. “We simply cannot go on like this as a country. These open-borders policies have devastated our safety, security, and sovereignty.”