Southwest Border Crossings Plummet to All-Time Low
New CBP figures show July numbers far below Biden-era highs, with zero migrant releases reported for the past three months.
WASHINGTON — Illegal border crossings nationwide dropped to their lowest level in recorded history in July, according to new federal data that Trump administration officials and Republican lawmakers are taking a victory lap.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported 24,628 encounters and apprehensions last month, including just 7,832 at the southwest border — a steep drop from more than 200,000 in the same month in 2021 and 2022 under President Joe Biden. The July total is the lowest monthly figure CBP has ever reported.
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“Americans deserve a secure southern border and Trump has delivered,” said Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas. Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., called it “another month of the fewest border encounters ever recorded.”
CBP also says no migrants who crossed illegally were released into the U.S. in May, June or July. “That’s the exact result of President Trump’s America First agenda in action,” said Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Thursday that an estimated 1.6 million people in the country illegally have departed so far this year, though these numbers are virtually impossible to independently confirm, given the chaos in Trump’s mass deportation campaign and the frequent manipulation of data that doesn’t fit the administration’s agenda.
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If the CBP data — which includes encounters by both Border Patrol and the Office of Field Operations — is to be believed, it shows significant drops across all major sectors. At the northern border, July apprehensions fell to 6,296, compared with a record high of 18,569 a year ago. At official air, land and sea ports, 10,500 were reported.
CBP officials say the largest share of migrants encountered this year have been single adults. Through July, 639,826 illegal crossings have been reported nationwide, including 457,785 single adults, 27,980 unaccompanied minors and the rest in family units.
CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott said in a statement that the agency “shut down illegal crossings again this month, setting enforcement records and collecting billions in tariffs. This is what making America great and safe again looks like.”
The numbers exclude “got aways” — people who enter illegally without being caught or making an asylum claim — which CBP no longer publicly reports as it has in the past. During the Biden administration, Border Patrol agents logged more than 2 million got aways, according to internal data obtained by The Center Square.
CBP’s fiscal year runs from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30. Officials say they expect the total number of crossings in fiscal 2025 to be the lowest in U.S. history.
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I think it’s important to note that a huge percentage of people who entered during the Biden Administration were folks who came across the border and waited for the Border Patrol to come pick them up. That’s because they came to request asylum, which is legal under both U.S. and International law.
Well, can anyone blame anybody for not crossing the way shit is happening now. #FuckFascism