CBP Releases Latest Enforcement Statistics for FY2018 March

(PRESS RELEASE) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection yesterday released enforcement statistics on CBP.gov. The latest metrics detail enforcement actions for fiscal year 2018 ending in March.

Categories include the arrests of individuals with criminal convictions, nationwide apprehensions by gang affiliation, and total nationwide narcotics seizures.

In FY2017, Officers and Agents arrested more than 20,000 criminal aliens and nearly 11,000 individuals who were wanted by law enforcement authorities; and seized more than 2.14 million pounds of narcotics, including nearly 1,500 pounds of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.

CBP Enforcement Statistics FY2018

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the nation’s largest federal law enforcement agency charged with securing the nation’s borders and facilitating international travel and trade. Our top priority is to keep terrorists and their weapons from entering the United States.

At the nation’s more than 300 ports of entry, CBP officers have a complex mission with broad law enforcement authorities tied to screening all foreign visitors, returning American citizens and imported cargo that enters the U.S. Along the nation’s borders, the United States Border Patrol and Air and Marine Operations are the uniformed law enforcement arms of CBP responsible for securing U.S. borders between ports of entry.

The following is a summary of CBP enforcement actions related to inadmissibles, apprehensions, arrests of individuals with criminal convictions and individuals who have been apprehended multiple times crossing the border illegally.

Visit CBP’s Southwest Border Migration page for demographic information regarding apprehensions and inadmissibles on the southwest border and the Use of Force page for use-of-force statistics and case summaries.

TOTAL CBP ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

Numbers below reflect FY2016 and FY2017 totals, FY2018TD (October 1, 2017 – March 31, 2018)

	FY2016	FY2017	FY2018TD
OFFICE OF FIELD OPERATIONS (OFO)
Total Inadmissibles¹	274,821	199,844	112,482
U.S. BORDER PATROL
Total Apprehensions²	415,816	310,531	177,021
Total Enforcement Actions	690,637	487,481	289,503

¹Inadmissibles refers to individuals encountered at ports of entry who are seeking lawful admission into the United States but are determined to be inadmissible, individuals presenting themselves to seek humanitarian protection under our laws, and individuals who withdraw an application for admission and return to their countries of origin within a short timeframe.
²Apprehensions refers to the physical control or temporary detainment of a person who is not lawfully in the U.S. which may or may not result in an arrest

ARRESTS OF INDIVIDUALS WITH CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS OR THOSE WANTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

Numbers below reflect FY2016-2017 totals, FY2018TD (October 1, 2017 – March 31, 2018)

FY2016	FY2017	FY2018TD
OFFICE OF FIELD OPERATIONS
Criminal Aliens³ Encountered	14,090	10,596	5,558
NCIC⁴ Arrests	8,129	6,966	3,793
U.S. BORDER PATROL
Criminal Aliens³ Encountered	12,842	8,531	4,064
Criminal Aliens with Outstanding Wants or Warrants	3,697	2,675	1,462

³Criminal Aliens refers to aliens who have been convicted of crime, whether in the United States or abroad, so long as the conviction is for conduct which is deemed criminal by the United States. Criminal aliens encountered at ports of entry are inadmissible, absent extenuating circumstances, and represent a subset of total OFO inadmissibles. U.S. Border Patrol arrests of criminal aliens are a subset of total apprehensions. See U.S. Border Patrol Criminal Alien Statistics for a breakdown of criminal alien stats by type of conviction.
⁴NCIC (National Crime Information Center) arrests refers to the number of CBP arrests of individuals, including U.S. citizens, who are wanted by other law enforcement agencies.

Office of Field Operations Drug Seizures (to March 31, 2018)

FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017	FY2018TD
Cocaine	45,260	39,075	41,312	38,145	52,803	56,729	32,867
Heroin	3,780	3,990	4,314	5,530	4,223	3,626	2,479
Marijuana	522,614	469,995	437,950	602,795	515,382	338,676	171,219
Methamphetamine	14,131	20,739	23,234	29,001	37,704	44,065	33,187
Fentanyl	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	440	951.54	** 793

*weights are in pounds(lb)

** Fentanyl statistics reflected here are through February 28. March totals will be provided next month.

U.S. Border Patrol Drug Seizures (to March 31, 2018)

FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017	FY2018TD
Cocaine	12,161	4,696	4,554	11,220	5,473	9,346	2,957
Heroin	430	576	606	518	566	953	263
Marijuana	2,299,864	2,430,123	1,922,545	1,538,307	1,294,052	861,231	296,678
Methamphetamine	3,715	3,580	3,930	6,443	8,224	10,328	5,110
Fentanyl	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	181	276

*weights are in pounds(lb)

USBP Nationwide Apprehensions by Gang Affiliation

FY2014 – FY2018TD through March 31, 2018

Gang Affiliation	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017	FY2018TD
18th Street	96	84	47	61	52
Angelino Heights Sureno 13	0	0	0	1	0
Bandidos	1	0	0	0	0
Barrio Azteca	7	6	4	3	0
Border Brothers	0	0	0	0	0
Brown Pride	0	0	0	0	0
Folk Nation	0	0	0	0	0
Hard Times 13	0	0	1	0	0
Hells Angels	0	0	1	0	0
Hermanos Pistoleros Latinos (HPL)	2	2	0	3	2
Latin Kings	17	16	18	6	4
Los Zetas	0	0	1	0	0
MS-13	437	335	253	228	181
Mara-R	0	0	0	1	0
Maravilla Salva Trucha	0	0	1	0	1
Mexican Mafia	3	4	6	4	2
Mexicles	0	0	0	0	0
Mexikanemi	7	2	0	3	0
Nortenos	13	14	5	6	4
Other	183	154	136	90	45
Outlaws	1	0	0	0	0
Paisas	86	73	119	53	33
Partido Revolucionario Mexican (PRM)	0	0	0	0	0
Playboys	0	0	1	0	0
South Los	1	0	0	0	0
Surenos (sur-13)	160	140	90	66	31
Tango Blast	18	14	16	8	3
Texas Syndicate	2	0	3	1	1
West Park	0	0	0	1	0
Zetas	0	0	0	1	1
Total	1034	844	702	536	360

U.S. Border Patrol Recidivism Rates

	FY13	FY14	FY15	FY16	FY17
Recidivism⁵	16%	14%	14%	12%	10%

⁵Recidivism refers to percentage of individuals apprehended more than one time by the Border Patrol within a fiscal year.

April 9th, 2018 | News