The border crossing reached a new arrival in March, according to the Trump administration.
“The Border Patrol encounters in March totaled 7,181,” wrote Border Czar Tom Homan on his previous Twitter X. “I started as an agent for the Border Patrol in 1984. This was 41 years ago. I can’t remember that the numbers have been that low since then.”
Homan has established a key position in immigration and customs enforcement under both the Obama administration and the first Trump administration.
March 2025 is total 94% down A report from the New York Post for a year ago. According to US Customs Border Protection, illegal border crossings have reached record highs under President Joe Biden, with over 10.1 million immigrant encounters across the country by August 2024. Central square Previously reported That number didn’t include “Gotaway” of around 2 million. These are people who illegally entered the United States and avoided capture, bringing the total to over 12.5 million.
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The new total for March is less than the numbers reported for a day during the Biden administration. Homan compared the total for March to daily figures under the Biden administration
“[This] It’s far from the over 11,000 seen in Biden for a certain period of time. “The men and women of the Border Patrol are proof that they can achieve when they are allowed to do their job and complete the agency’s mission,” Homan writes.
Skeptics said the administration exaggerated its success at the border, but since January there have been considerable drop-offs on border encounters and illegal immigrants.
This trend is so pronounced that immigration facilities began to close. Both federal and state facilities used to detain and deal with illegal immigrants have been closed in the heart of Texas It has been reported.
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