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On a Typical Day in Fiscal Year 2022, CBP...

  • Processed:
    • 868,867 passengers and pedestrians:
      • 263,000 incoming international air passengers and crew
      • 58,549 passengers and crew on arriving ship/boat
      • 547,318 incoming land travelers
    • 91,605 truck, rail, and sea containers
    • 226,589 incoming privately owned vehicles
    • $9.2 billion worth of imported products
    • 107,000 entries of merchandise at our air, land, and seaports of entry
    • $306 million in duties, taxes, and other fees, including more than $287 million in duties
       
  • Conducted:
    • 6,068 enforcement encounters nationwide between the ports of entry (including apprehensions and expulsions)
    • 41 arrests of wanted criminals at U.S. ports of entry
    • 1,152 enforcement encounters nationwide at ports of entry (including inadmissible migrants and expulsions)
       
  • Discovered:
    • 240 pests at U.S. ports of entry and 2,677 materials for quarantine: plant, meat, animal byproduct, and soil
       
  • Seized:
    • 2,895 pounds of drugs
    • $217,700 illicit currency seized
    • $8 million worth of products with Intellectual Property Rights violations
       
  • Intercepted:
    • 8 fraudulent documents
       
  • Employed:
    • 63,843 men and women
    • 25,836 CBP officers
    • 2,668 CBP Agriculture Specialists
    • 19,357 Border Patrol agents
    • 569 Air interdiction agents (pilots)
    • 364 Marine interdiction agents
    • 363 Aviation enforcement agents
    • 1,104 Trade personnel
       
  • Deployed:
    • More than 700 canine teams and 101 horse patrols
       
  • Flew:
    • 224 hours enforcement missions over the United States
       
  • Underway (float):
    • Underway 78 float hours of enforcement missions in the United States
       
  • Conducted operations in:
    • 22 countries with 33 International Affairs employees working abroad
    • 328 ports of entry within 20 field offices
    • 129 Border Patrol stations within 22 sectors, with 35 permanent checkpoints
    • 75 Air and Marine Operations locations, including branches and units, National Air Security Operations Centers, and the Air and Marine Operations Center

Note

The statistics provided are approximate daily averages of Fiscal Year 2022.

 

Last Modified: Jul 21, 2023