CBP releases the March Cross numbers in March, marking the lowest ever recorded
The latest US customs e Borders protection (CBP) The numbers show that during March the southern border -ovest saw the lowest number of always crossings, with only 7,180 registered.
“Under the guidance of President (Donald) Trump and (DHS) Secretary (Kristi) Noem, the administration has undertaken a bold and decisive action to restore control on the border. The frontier patrol agents are authorized as never before to close the illegal entrance and protect American lives, “Pete Flores, acting of the CBP commissioner, said.” The message is clear: the border is closed to illegal crossings and for those who are still willing to test our determination, know this – you will be pursued and you will be deported. “
The numbers of March – with 1,146 crossings less than in February – represent a dramatic drop compared to the monthly average of 155,000 during the Biden administration. Under the former president Joe Biden, border agents have often recorded over 7000 border crossings per day.
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Migrants align themselves in a remote center of processing of the United States border patrol after crossing the border between the United States and Mexico, 7 December 2023, in Lukeville, in Ariz. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Even daily apprehensions along the border with south -ovest went down to about 230 per day, said CBP, which is a number that the United States never saw.
CBP said that under the Biden administrationThere were an average of 5,100 meetings per day.
The final monthly numbers should go out in the next few days.
The migrants looking for asylum in the United States while row at the border crossing of El Chaparral in Tijuana, Mexico. (Reuters/Jorge Duene)
Tuesday the press secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt praised the news of the number of border crossings of the south -west in March.
“Thanks to the leadership of President Trump, the border patrol agents have now returned to do the work for which they have enrolled: ensure the border, rather than acting as a travel agents for Illegal aliens“He said.” The Los Angeles Times captured the Trump effect on the border with a recent article. Their title recited “California, border in Mexico, a time overwhelmed, it is now almost empty with so few migrants who enter the United States” that they wrote, “shelters that once served migrants were completely closed”.
“Even the deportations of illegal aliens who threaten the safety of the American people continue at a rapid rhythm”.
The figures come after Trump announced at the beginning of this month that the apprehensions went down to 8,326 in February, his first full month in office, which according to him is a record minimum. The figure marks a 96% decrease from the maximum of the Biden administration in December 2023.
President Donald Trump in West Palm Beach, Florida, November 6, 2024. (Evan Vucci/AP)
After the announcement, Trump declared with the air of challenge that the border is now closed and that all those who have gone through the southern border would have been quickly expelled or pursued for crimes against the United States
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Trump has also signed orders that place citizenship of birth right, suspending admissions to refugees, ending the use of an app on the southern border to admit migrants through conditional freedom and resuming the construction of the border wall.
Trump’s hard approach a illegal immigration It was a key promise of the campaign and its administration also arrested and deported criminal illegal migrants throughout the country under the guidance of Noem and the Tom Homan border tsar.
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