The Fiscal Year 2025 Border Patrol apprehension total of 237,565 was approximately 87% lower than the four-fiscal-year average of 1.86 million reported for the four fiscal years immediately preceding FY2025.
September 30, 2025
high
temporal
Comparison of FY2025 annual apprehensions to the recent multi-year average.
A 2025 NBER working paper by Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman estimated that the total effective tax rate (all taxes paid relative to economic income) of the top 0.0002% of U.S. households (approximately the Forbes 400) averaged 24% in 2018â2020, compared with 30% for the full population and 45% for top labor income earners.
August 01, 2025
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statistical
Effective tax rate is defined as all taxes paid relative to economic income; the top 0.0002% corresponds approximately to the Forbes 400.