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Where do people encountered at the border come from?

Mexico was the most common citizenship, with 10,257 encounters in August 2026 — 29.8% of the month’s total.

Answer current as of

Where this comes from

The figure is the result of a checked-in query, countries_by_encounters.sql, run against the published data. Every number on this page can be traced to it.