Anna Giaritelli joined the Washington Examiner in 2015 and focuses on homeland security, immigration, and border issues. Anna has traveled to the border on more than 40 occasions since 2018 and has covered human smuggling, the evolution of the war on drugs, domestic terrorism, and migration trends. She is currently based in Austin, Texas.
Federal law enforcement arrested a record-high number of non-U.S. citizens at the border over the past year who were convicted criminals.
Criminal noncitizen encounters were up from 12,028 in 2022, according to government data. CBP only posts seven years of data online, and arrests each year have ranged from 2,438 to 12,028. The uptick comes as Washington is grappling with how to boost border security and clamp down on soaring levels of criminals slipping across the border. Republicans leery of spending more money on the war in Ukraine want to tie additional aid to funding border security in the U.S., though there is disagreement with the White House on the approach.