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This year, US Border Patrol The lowest number of annual apprehensions recorded at the US-Mexico border since 1970, federal officials announced Tuesday, one of the most visible signs yet how trump administrationThe immigration crackdown is affecting the country.
During the 2025 fiscal year, which began in October 2024 and ended in September, Border Patrol made 237,565 apprehensions along the southwest border, 72 percent of which occurred during the final months of the Biden administration, according to. Department of Homeland Security,
The Secretary of Homeland Security is, “the most secure border in American history and the year-end numbers prove it.” christy call Said In a statement.
While fears over 2024 were already declining, the 2025 figures are still the opposite of record-breaking migration Happened at the border during the Biden administration. During fiscal year 2022, the Border Patrol made 2.2 million apprehensions and sometimes encountered several people in a day as the Trump administration limits the number of arrests Border Patrol makes a month now.
Ariel Ruiz Soto, an analyst at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, told CBS News Administration Creates “New Normal” greatly reduced immigration With White House policies in place across the border in the space of a few months, “there has been a significant impact on people coming to the United States illegally.”
The Trump administration has made cracking down on illegal immigration and arresting undocumented people its central priority.
Shortly after taking office, the President ended the use of the CBP One app, which had allowed nearly 1 million people to enter the country legally since 2023 as their immigration claims were being processed.
He also declared that migration to the border constituted a national “invasion” and demanded Close all US asylum claims Made outside official US ports of entry.
a federal court in July found that the order was illegal Because the President sought to “adopt an alternative immigration system” outside of the immigration laws passed by Congress, although an appeals court next month Parts of the program allowed To continue.
there is also administration humanitarian protection canceled For immigrants from unstable countries, 500,000 people were allowed to live in the US temporarily.
Outside of these legal changes, the White House has also increased military assets to the limit, including thousands of soldiers pulled from every branch of the armed forces,
Along with these deployments the administration has Seized parts of border land as military areas To allow for the arrest of migrants who then cross into them unknowingly.
Such operations are only set to expand in the coming years, after a massive $170 billion An infusion of funds for the Border Patrol’s parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security This summer.
In recent years, Republicans States like Texas have launched their own massive military border defense missionsSending thousands of state troops to the border and building Trump-like wall barriers along the border.
While activity at the border has dropped dramatically, ICE is reportedly struggling Create enough stopping space to maintain speed With the administration’s massive domestic immigration enforcement crackdown, thanks to DHS’s fondness for using relatively small state-run facilities and the agency’s reported policy of requiring NOEMs to personally sign off on expenses over $100,000.