# Southwest land encounters remain at record levels through FY2023

Date: 2023

## The fact

Through fiscal 2023, CBP southwest-land encounters remained at historically high levels after a record FY2022. He did not write a CBP sector tally.

## Context

Title 42, parole programmes, and Mexican cooperation sat. Neighbouring Title 42 end is May 2023. Store as complex: enforcement weather is presidential; operational command is DHS/CBP.

Title 42 11 May 2023 is neighbouring. MPP 2021 is a parent halt.

The President of the United States signs enrolled bills and is Commander in Chief. He does not write a Senate roll-call, a CBP sector tally, an IDF campaign, or a CBO score. A signature is not unique authorship of every title Congress enrolled. Drafting and floor votes remain with Congress. An archived [White House](/organizations/white-house) (https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/) is the official carrier for this term; current whitehouse.gov is not this administration. Office-holding is not authorship of every later CPI print, encounter table, or foreign campaign.

## Evidence and sources

U.S. Customs and Border Protection carries the official instrument or communique. FactCheck.org records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is forced displacement and [migration-policy restrictiveness](/drivers/mig-policy-restrictiveness): a completed two-year record-encounter cluster is a dated outcome on enforcement weather he set, remaining CBP command as a neighbour.

## What is established and what is not

Established: FY2022–FY2023 high southwest encounters, independently reported from CBP tables.

Not established: that he ordered every release, or a unique later municipal-budget coefficient as his personal tally.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

DHS and CBP ran the line. Mexico cooperated or did not. He did not write sector tallies.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Southwest land encounters remain at record levels through FY2023, not a later speech about Southwest land encounters remain at record levels through FY2023.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Southwest land encounters remain at record levels through FY2023 on 2023-09-30 is not a licence to treat every later U.S. Customs and Border Protection communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Southwest land encounters remain at record levels through FY2023 into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He set enforcement weather. DHS and CBP ran the line. Mexico cooperated or did not. He did not write sector tallies. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Joe Biden: https://factrail.ai/people/joe-biden

## Drivers

- Forced-Displacement Scale: https://factrail.ai/drivers/forced-displacement-scale
- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.factcheck.org/2025/10/bidens-final-numbers/
- https://www.cbp.gov/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-biden-encounters-fy2023