Unlawful crossings along southern border reach new historic low

The number of migrants captured by crossing the southern border illegally established a new historic monthly hollow in June, pursuing an extraordinary lull in illegal immigration that the Trump administration attributed to its aggressive deportation efforts, the government’s preliminary data obtained by CBS News.

Last month, agents of the border patrol along the American-Mexican border recorded just over 6,000 apprehensions of migrants who entered the country without authorization, the lowest monthly count never reported by the agency, according to preliminary customs on customs and border protection. The previous monthly below reported by Border Patrol took place in March, when the agency recorded around 7,200 apprehensions by migrants.

The figures contrast strongly with the record levels of apprehensions made by the border patrol under the Biden administration, which faced a humanitarian, political and operational crisis of unprecedented proportions on the southern border until it implemented restrictive asylum measures last year.

For many months in mandate by former president Joe Biden, Border Patrol recorded more than 6,000 apprehensions every day. At their peak at the end of 2023, the illegal daily passages on the southern border exceeded 10,000 a few days.

Tom Homan, the Trump administration tsar, confirmed the apprehensions of around 6,000 border patrols recorded in June. He added that Border Patrol did not release a single migrant for a second consecutive month. For a few months under the Biden administration, tens of thousands of migrants were released in the United States with instructions to appear before the immigration court to plead their affairs.

“We have never seen such low figures. Never,” Homan wrote on X.

Although Border Patrol did not publicly publish the monthly apprehension data before the 2000 financial year, the last time the agency reached an average of almost 6,000 migrant prohibitions per month over a year, it was at the end of the 1960s, the historic figures indicate.

Immediately after taking office in January, President Trump authorized border officials to quickly expel migrants – without hearing their asylum allegations – under emergency proclamation, it was necessary to repress a “invasion”. This policy is challenged before the courts by civil rights defenders, who argue that it violates the law on asylum. Immigration authorities were also responsible for arresting all versions, in the absence of deadly circumstances.

Trump has deployed thousands of troops in additional active service to the southern border, trying them with illegal passages pushed by the construction of barriers. In some parts of the border with Mexico, the American army has installed areas where soldiers can temporarily have migrants, before transferring them to immigration officials.

Inside the country, the Trump administration has instructed immigration and the application of customs to supervise the large -scale arrests of immigrants suspected of being illegally in the country. Last week, the number of individuals held in ice detention Set a high record.

In the middle of the historic lull in illegal passages, hundreds of border patrol agents were assigned to help ice with immigration arrests far from the border, in places like Los Angeles.

The administration has also organized an intense messaging campaign to force immigrants in the United States illegally self-repairing. He gave them carrots in the form of travel assistance through a government smartphone application and a self-performance bonus of $ 1,000.

But he also threatened those who refuse to leave with an arrest and a forced expulsion, and even the possibility of being detained at the naval base of Guantanamo Bay, a Installation of tents in Florida Everglades Nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” or a mega maximum security prison in Salvador.

Mr. Trump’s immigration repression was not without criticism. In the United States communities, in particular the cities led by democrats, videos of masked federal agents who arrested unauthorized immigrants in the courthouses or external houses triggered an outcry by local residents and politicians.

Some Republicans have urged the Trump administration to prioritize the arrest of migrants with a serious criminal record in fears that its repression extends far beyond the dangerous people whom the president has promised to expel. Recent numbers Show that less than 10% of people reserved for ice detention in recent months have been found guilty of violent crimes.