SOUTHWEST
BORDER APPREHENSIONS
The U.S. Border Patrol made 32,506 apprehensions along the
southwest border during November 2001, a 52 percent decrease when
compared to November 2000. Voluntary returns conducted by Border
Patrol agents decreased by 53 percent from a year ago to 30,621.
Data Source: PAS G-23.8 & G-23.18
- Normally, apprehensions reach a yearly low in December
followed by a strong seasonal increase in January.
Seasonal highs tend to be reached in early spring.
Apprehensions decrease but remain relatively high through
the summer months and then start their autumn decline in
September, which continues through the Christmas and New
Year holidays.
- Southwest border apprehensions have generally been
decreasing on a seasonally adjusted basis since February
2000. Seasonally adjusted apprehensions decreased 38
percent in the 19 months between February 2000 and August
2001, and then an additional 25 percent in the three
months including and following September 11.
- In FY 2001, Central American apprehensions on the
southwest border reached 22,515, a decrease of 577 when
compared to the previous year. For the first two months
of FY 2002, southwest border Central American
apprehensions reached 2,312 a decrease of 21 percent
compared to the first two months of FY 2001. Of the 2,312
Central Americans apprehended in November 2001, 38
percent were Honduran, 34 percent were El Salvadoran, 23
percent were Guatemalan, and 4 percent were Nicaraguan.
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