CBP Releases Data on Its FY 2011 Border Enforcement & Management
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has released its year-end data on fiscal year 2011 border enforcement and management efforts. The following are highlights of CBP's efforts in FY 2011:
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- CBP processed nearly $2.3 trillion in trade -- a 14 percent increase over FY 2010 -- and more than 340 million travelers and 24.3 million containers through U.S. ports of entry.
- CBP officers conducted more than 24,800 seizures of violations of intellectual property rights (IPR) compared to nearly 20,000 in FY 2010.
- CBP agriculture specialists seized more than 1.6 million prohibited plant materials, meat, and animal byproducts and intercepted nearly 183,000 pests at ports of entry.
- CBP officers and agents seized nearly five million pounds of narcotics, a 20 percent increase from FY 2010 and more than $126 million in undeclared currency.
- CBP enrolled nearly 290,000 new travelers in the agency’s Trusted Traveler Programs (Global Entry, SENTRI, NEXUS and FAST) designed to expedite screening for low-risk travelers and commerce through rigorous, recurrent background checks.
- CBP officers processed more than 15 million travelers at 15 pre-clearance locations in FY 2011.
- As a result of CBP pre-departure screening efforts overseas, more than 3,100 individuals who would be found inadmissible in the U.S. for national security, insufficient or fraudulent documents and other admissibility concerns, were denied boarding onto U.S. bound aircraft at foreign airports.