Catch and release is over, DHS says; January saw lowest border numbers since summer of 2020:
Homeland Security saw illegal immigration plummet in January, according to new data published Tuesday that showed the border had the lowest level of migrants detected since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
The improvements came across the board, with fewer total encounters, fewer unaccompanied alien children and fewer families of parents and children.
Border Patrol agents recorded fewer than 30,000 immigrants last month crossing illegally along the U.S.-Mexico boundary, for the first time since May 2020. That was nearly a 40% drop compared to December, and nearly 90% lower than the record-setting worst month of the Biden administration.
Only about 7,000 of the crossers came as families, down from 14,000 in December and more than 100,000 at the peak worst days of the Biden era.
Pete Flores, acting commissioner at Customs and Border Protection, called the changes “dramatic.”
“The reduction in illegal aliens attempting to make entry into the U.S., compounded by a significant increase in repatriations, means that more officers and agents are now able to conduct the enforcement duties that make our border more secure and our country safer,” he said.
CBP said the key change was in delivering consequences to illegal border crossers.
“CBP is no longer catching and releasing illegal aliens into the U.S.,” the agency said. “In simple terms, illegal aliens are being arrested, detained and then rapidly removed.” --->READ MORE HERE
Illegal border crossings hit record lows after Trump’s swift crackdown — and could be on track for levels not seen in 60 years:
You can almost hear a pin drop at the border.
Border crossings have plummeted to levels not seen in decades this month following President’s Trump’s swift crackdown on illegal immigration across the southwest, The Post can reveal.
So far in February, about 359 illegal migrants per day have been caught across the entire southern border — down more than 90% from February 2024, according to leaked Customs and Border Protection data.
That puts the US on track to have the lowest monthly border crossings in at least 25 years. If the trend continues, the number of illegal migrants coming into the US could hit a level not seen since 1968, nearly 60 years ago.
It’s the lowest the US has seen “in almost a lifetime,” said Mark Krikorian, the executive director at the Center for Immigration Studies.
“If you kind of break down the numbers, divide them by 365, we haven’t had numbers this low since the 1960s. So we’re talking 60-year lows if it’s sustained, obviously,” he said.
The CBP data shows that just 3,953 illegal migrants have been caught this month through Feb. 11.
If the trend continues through the month, that would put February border crossings at roughly 10,000, which is a number that hasn’t been seen since CBP began tracking month-to-month data in 1999.
The closest crossings have come to 10,000 was in April 2017 — shortly after Trump took office the first time — when monthly crossings exceeded 11,000.
“That’s a very, very low number,” said John Gramlich, the associate director at the Pew Research Center.
He noted that border crossings have been trending down for nearly a year, after former President Joe Biden moved to make it tougher for illegal migrants to claim asylum at the border. --->READ MORE HERE
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