CBP releases March border crossing numbers, marking lowest ever recorded

The most recent U.S. Customs and Border Safety (CBP) numbers present that in March, the southwest border noticed the bottom variety of crossings ever, with simply 7,180 recorded.

“Below the management of President [Donald] Trump and [DHS] Secretary [Kristi] Noem, the administration has taken daring, decisive motion to revive management on the border. Border Patrol brokers are empowered like by no means earlier than to close down illegal entry and shield American lives,” Pete Flores, performing CBP commissioner, stated. “The message is evident: the border is closed to unlawful crossings, and for these nonetheless prepared to check our resolve, know this — you’ll be prosecuted, and you’ll be deported.”

March’s numbers — with 1,146 fewer crossings than in February — characterize a dramatic drop in comparison with the month-to-month common of 155,000 through the Biden administration. Below former President Joe Biden, border brokers incessantly recorded over 7,000 border crossings per day.

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Migrants line up at a distant U.S. Border Patrol processing middle after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Dec. 7, 2023, in Lukeville, Ariz. (John Moore/Getty Pictures)

The every day apprehensions alongside the southwest border have additionally fallen to about 230 per day, CBP stated, which is a quantity the U.S. has by no means seen.

CBP stated that underneath the Biden administration, there have been a median of 5,100 encounters per day.

The ultimate month-to-month numbers are anticipated to come back out within the coming days.

TRUMP ADMIN ENDS DEPORTATION PROTECTIONS FOR MASSIVE NUMBER OF VENEZUELANS AMID ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN

Migrants in search of asylum within the U.S. as they queue at El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico.  (Reuters/Jorge Duenes)

White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday praised the information in regards to the variety of southwest border crossings in March.

“Because of President Trump’s management, border patrol brokers at the moment are again to doing the roles they signed up for: securing the border, fairly than serving as journey brokers for unlawful aliens,” she stated. “The Los Angeles Instances captured the Trump impact on the border with a latest article. Their headline learn ‘California, Mexico border, as soon as overwhelmed, is now practically empty with so few migrants coming into the U.S.’ They wrote, ‘shelters that when served migrants have utterly closed.’ 

“Deportations of unlawful aliens who threaten the security of the American individuals are additionally persevering with at a speedy tempo.”

The figures come after Trump introduced earlier this month that apprehensions fell to eight,326 in February, his first full month in workplace, which he stated is a record-setting low. The determine marks a 96% drop from the highs of the Biden administration in December 2023.

TRUMP ADMIN ENDS DEPORTATION PROTECTIONS FOR MASSIVE NUMBER OF VENEZUELANS AMID ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN

President Donald Trump in West Palm Seaside, Fla., Nov. 6, 2024. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Following the announcement, Trump defiantly declared that the border is now closed and that each one those that crossed the southern border could be shortly ejected or prosecuted for crimes towards the U.S.

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Trump has additionally signed orders ending birthright citizenship, suspending refugee admissions, ending the usage of an app on the southern border to confess migrants through humanitarian parole and resuming border wall building.

Trump’s hard-line strategy to unlawful immigration was a key marketing campaign promise and his administration has additionally been arresting and deporting felony unlawful migrants throughout the nation underneath the management of Noem and border czar Tom Homan.

Fox Information Digital’s Michael Dorgan and Brooke Taylor contributed to this report.