U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") recently released agency data and statistics for fiscal year 2009, which is available on its website: www.cbp.gov.
Acccording to CBP, the agency inspected 361.2 million travelers at 327 ports of entry. CBP officers encountered more than 224,000 inadmissible aliens at ports of entry and apprehended more than 556,000 individuals between the land ports of entry. CBP also continued to increase its workforce during FY 2009 to 57,519 - up 10 percent from 51,553 in FY 2008. Of that increased 10 percent, CBP officers increased by 7 percent and agricultural specialists by 5 percent. Additionally, CBP hired more than 2,600 new Border Patrol agents, bringing the total to more than 20,000 agents nationwide.