More than 211,000 Haitian migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border between October 2018 and July 2025 were released into the United States, according to federal records obtained and analyzed by the Associated Press.

The exact figure is 211,427. That places Haitians among the larger nationality groups in the data, behind Venezuelans (773,032), Cubans (539,050), Mexicans (403,705), Hondurans (388,140), Colombians (354,092), Nicaraguans (313,335) and Ecuadorians (238,121).

Nearly half of the Haitians gave a destination in Florida. Many others named Massachusetts and New York, and some were headed farther inland, to states such as Indiana and Ohio.

Measured against the size of each state's population, the picture changes. Florida still leads, but Delaware and Massachusetts stand out, followed by Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Rhode Island and Ohio.

The records show where migrants said they were going. They do not show whether people reached those places or stayed there.

The figures help explain why the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians this summer is being felt well beyond Miami and Brooklyn, in cities such as Springfield, Ohio, and Indianapolis.