How Many Illegal Border Crossings Since 2024. Border crossings down, may 15, 2024. The 2022 fiscal year set a record of 2.2 million illegal border crossings.

Border patrol recorded 124,220 encounters between ports of entry along the southwest border, a decrease of 50% from december 2023. Border patrol encounters in july were 32% lower than in june 2024 and were the lowest monthly total along the southwest border since september 2020.