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Increasing Numbers of Unaccompanied Alien
Children at the Southwest Border
Updated August 5, 2021
The number of encounters (apprehensions or expulsions) of unaccompanied alien children (UAC,
unaccompanied children) at the U.S. -Mexico border with the Department of Homeland Security's
(DHS's) U. S. Customs and Border Proteclion (CBP) in the first nine months of FY2021 (93,512) already
exceeds the previous apprehensions record fromFY2019 (76,020). UAC encounters declined
substantially from FY2019 to FY2020, largely because of the COVID-19 pandemic and related public-
health border enforcement measures. Starting in June 2020, they increased consistently before almost
doubling from January to February 2021 and again from February to March. They have since remained
elevated. March 2021 UAC encounters (18,723) were the highest monthly total on record (Figure 1). US.
officials say figures for July may exceed the March record number, and the figures for the rest of FY2021
are also expected to remain elevated.
Figure 1. UAC Encounters at Southwest Border by Month, FY2018-FY202I*
20,000
18,000
-04mFY2021*
16,000
14,000
12,000                                                                     -EmFY2020
10,000
8,000
FY2019
6,000  .                                                         .
4,000
2,000                                                                          FY201B
OCT  NOV   DEC  JAN   FEB  MAR APR MAY      JUN  JUL AUG    SEP
Source: FY2018: CBP, U.S. Border Patrol Southwest Border Apprehensions by Sector FY2018. FY201 9-FY2021: CBP,
Southwest Land Border Encounters.
CRS INSIGHT
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