President Donald Trump’s January 22, 2025 executive order aimed at stopping migrants from entering the country did result in a sharp drop in these numbers and also resulted in a shift in their nationalities. Under Trump, Mexicans were the largest number followed by Canadians, Chinese, and citizens from India coming to ports of entry without adequate papers; under Biden Venezuelans, Mexicans, and Cubans predominated.

The Trump administration has not stopped all noncitizens without papers from entry. As of the end of May 2025, among these “inadmissibles,” a total of 10,673 noncitizens were paroled into the U.S. and 2,351 were issued Notices to Appear in Immigration Court and allowed entry by CBP Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers.

Comparatively speaking, those paroled into the country under Trump have been about a third of the daily number allowed in under Biden during FY 2015. Under Trump, daily numbers of asylum seekers and others allowed in to pursue their claims dropped to just one percent of the daily average under Biden.

Decisions by field offices show distinctively different patterns. The top field offices that paroled individuals into the country were San Diego followed by San Francisco. The top offices issuing NTAs were Laredo and New York.

These findings are based on an analysis of just received case-by-case U.S. port authority records obtained following a persistent campaign by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

To dig further into all the details, by time period, field office, nationality and the decisions to turn noncitizens away or allow them to enter the country see TRAC’s online dashboard found here.