CBP Logs Busiest November on Record With Encounters at US Southern Border

The United States experienced its busiest November on record with encounters at the southern border, according to new data released on Friday. Providing a monthly update of its border enforcement statistics, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported its personnel had logged some 242,418 encounters at the southern border in November. By comparison, CBP recorded 235,173 encounters at the southern border in November 2022, 74,845 in November 2021, and 72,113 in November 2020. Historic CBP data indicates U.S. border officials had never logged more than 80,000 encounters in any given November prior to 2022. Of the 242,418 encounters at the border this November, 191,113 resulted from U.S. Border Patrol agents encountering people crossing outside the established ports of entry, which is broadly illegal. Of the encounters CBP logged at lawful ports of entry, the agency said it processed more than 43,000 migrants into the United States with information they submitted through the CBP One mobile app....