Garrett joined ABC15 in July 2019 as a Data Analyst.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection fiscal year ends in September and new data released by the agency gives a complete estimate for their 2023 Fiscal Year.
The top three years for migrant encounters are 2021 through 2023 with the next most number of encounters occurring in 2000 and 2001.In 2019, the USCBP began splitting migrant encounter data by demographic group. This past fiscal year had the highest number of family unit migrant encounters since then with about 821,000 recorded encounters. Single adults, the overall highest demographic group, ranked second with 1.5 million.
USCBP also provided data on the country of origin for many migrant encounters. ABC15 aggregated these numbers by region and found that 53% of encounters were migrants hailing from Central American countries. This is a 7% decline from the past fiscal year.
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