After nearly a full year of restrictions, crossings through Arizona ports of entry in 2020 were down significantly from 2019, according to recently released federal data.
Last year, 3.9 million pedestrians and 9.5 million people in cars crossed into Arizona from Mexico. While those are big numbers, they represent drops of roughly 45% and 42% from 2019, thanks in large part to restrictions on nonessential trips that went into effect in March. Truck traffic, which hasn’t been impacted by the restrictions, was up slightly.
In April, pedestrian and passenger crossings reached a year-over-year low point, and were both down about 70%. Since then monthly pedestrian crossings have never been more than half of the previous year’s figure.
Passengers, however, rose through October and ended the year at 56% of December 2019’s figure.
