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El Salvador

CBP recorded 395 encounters of people it lists as citizens of El Salvador in August 2026, 1.1% of the nationwide total. That is rank 13 of 22 entries CBP publishes.

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August 2026 at a glance

Encounters, August 2026
395
Events recorded, not people.
Share of nationwide encounters
1.1%
Of 34,428 recorded nationwide in August 2026.
Change on the prior month
+3.4%
From 382 in July 2026.
Change on the same month a year earlier
+47.9%
From 267 in August 2025.
Fiscal year 2026 to date
4,112
The first 11 months of the fiscal year.
Encounters in the published file
138,386
Since October 2022.

Taken from CBP on September 19, 2026. Citizenship is as CBP recorded it at the encounter.

Since October 2022

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Encounters of citizens of El Salvador by month, with share of the nationwide total
MonthEncountersShare of nationwide
October 20226,1442.2%
November 20225,6332.0%
December 20224,9531.6%
January 20233,8861.9%
February 20234,7742.2%
March 20235,8272.2%
April 20234,7811.7%
May 20235,4692.0%
June 20233,3181.6%
July 20234,0681.7%
August 20236,2462.1%
September 20237,7472.3%
October 20237,5122.4%
November 20237,6232.5%
December 20236,6541.8%
January 20243,6581.5%
February 20244,6371.8%
March 20244,1351.7%
April 20244,6991.9%
May 20245,0292.1%
June 20244,0302.0%
July 20243,1811.9%
August 20243,0151.9%
September 20243,0342.1%
October 20243,3552.4%
November 20243,3402.7%
December 20243,2372.6%
January 20251,9632.4%
February 20253651.3%
March 20253171.1%
April 20252690.9%
May 20253241.1%
June 20252441.0%
July 20252110.9%
August 20252671.0%
September 20253291.3%
October 20253191.0%
November 20253781.2%
December 20253651.2%
January 20263781.1%
February 20263811.4%
March 20263771.2%
April 20263591.1%
May 20263921.2%
June 20263861.2%
July 20263821.1%
August 20263951.1%

Nearest by volume

Entries either side of El Salvador in August 2026
RankCitizenshipAugust 2026
12Venezuela418
14Russia290

Full rankings: countries of citizenship and sectors and field offices. All topics: immigration and the border.

What this page cannot show

  • An encounter is an event. The same person may be encountered more than once, so this is not a count of El Salvador citizens.
  • Citizenship is what CBP recorded at the encounter. It is not a claim about where a person lived, travelled from, or was born.
  • CBP names a fixed set of countries and groups every other nationality as Other, so the countries published here are not the full range of nationalities encountered.
  • These counts describe enforcement activity. They do not measure migration from El Salvador or the number of El Salvador citizens in the United States.

Full method at methodology.

Sources

  • Nationwide Encounters — U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved 2026-09-19
    apps/web/queries/immigration/citizenship_trend.sql

Data retrieved