Average annual illegal border crossing deaths have been markedly higher during the presidency of Joe Biden than any other president for as far back as recorded. During the presidency of George W. Bush, an average of 382 people per year died while illegally crossing the border. Under Obama, this figure was about the same at 372. Under Trump, deaths were significantly lower at 282. During Biden's first two fiscal years in office, there were an average of 707 such deaths per year, or 2.5 times the rate under Trump. Unlike previous presidents, Biden's appointees haven't published these data, but U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) personnel have leaked the figures to the press. Contrary to a federal law that requires CPB to record all border crossing deaths, the Biden administration stopped doing this in 2023 for cases where the federal government isn't the first entity to discover the dead bodies.