They changed how they count encounters. The number is up, but not as much as this makes it seem.
Annual apprehensions and expulsions of migrants illegally crossing the border increased significantly in the U.S., with the most encounters recorded in 2022.
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In the fiscal year of 2022, there were 2,214,652 alien apprehensions and expulsions registered by the United States Border Patrol - a significant increase from the previous fiscal year when there were 1,662,167 registered alien apprehensions.
Between 1990 and February 2020, the United States border patrol figures measured "apprehensions" and "expulsions" as separate figures. Beginning in March 2020, U.S. border patrol changed its methodology to include counts for both apprehensions and expulsions as "encounters."