https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8wd8938e8oIllegal crossings at the US-Mexico border have hit the lowest level in over half a century, according to federal data obtained by the BBC's US partner CBS News.In fiscal year 2025, which spanned four months of former President Joe Biden's administration, US Border Patrol agents stopped 238,000 migrants crossing the southern border illegally, the Department of Homeland Security figures suggest.During Trump's first eight months in office, there have been fewer than 9,000 illegal crossings recorded each month, CBS reported.It is the lowest number of apprehensions since 1970, when border patrol agents stopped 202,000 people crossing the US-Mexico border unlawfully."The numbers demonstrate progress on border security," said Jennie Murray, president and chief executive of the National Immigration Forum, adding that both parties and the White House need to work on passing immigration legislation.Patrol agents made over half of the apprehensions at the border during the first three months of the 2025 fiscal year, which ran from October 2024 to September 2025, during Biden's tenure, according to the preliminary data.The apprehensions indicate the number of times border police stopped and processed migrants entering the country illegally at official ports of entry, which may include people who attempted to cross the border more than once after being stopped.US Customs and Border Patrol has said about 11 million border encounters were recorded over the course of Biden's four years in office.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told the BBC that the latest border figures showed Trump was delivering on his pledge to secure the border."As a result, Americans are safer - unvetted criminal illegal aliens and dangerous drugs are no longer pouring over our border unchecked," she said in an emailed statement."And for all the Democrats who claimed it was impossible to secure the border or that they needed new policy, turns out all we needed was a new President."After taking office in January, Trump established a host of immigration-related executive orders, including deploying additional troops to the border, ending asylum requests and expanding Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) ability to arrest and detain illegal migrants on US soil.The Republican president has also tried to end birthright citizenship in the US.Trump has also pledged to deport millions of undocumented immigrants during his time in office. In recent months, the president's administration has conducted immigration raids in major US cities, including Los Angeles and Chicago.
>>1445756It’s not because Trump is doing a good job at anything - nobody trusts this nation anymore.
>>1445756Most migrants come by airplane. Been that way for 25 years at least.
>>1445759>trump gets into office>illegal border crossings almost completely stopped>he dindu nuffinlol cope harder
>>1445764Notorious liar Trump tells you that you won something and you actually believe him.
>>1445770This is coming from the same side that not only lied about the security of the border, but routinely gaslit us claiming that Biden was mentally capable of being the president.
>>1445759The US is still far and above any other g first world country. Anyone that says otherwise is a seething brownoid or a Canadian (Usually the same)
>>1445756>Illegal crossings at the US-Mexico border have hit the lowest level in over half a centuryThank you, MR PRESIDENT Donald J Trump!
>>1445756Just look at that picture, wow. So many people really did abuse Bidens Open Border
similar article by CBS: "Illegal crossings along U.S.-Mexico border plummet to lowest annual level since 1970"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal-crossings-immigration-us-mexico-southern-border-lowest-level-1970-trump-dhs/
>>1445784These tards are still completely unable to admit how bad the border was under Biden.They literally think everything that doesn't agree with their narrow point of view is some sort of government conspiracy causing fake numbers
>>1445760What? I thought everyone knew it was cruise shipseveryone just thinks they come back tanned
>>1445756Trump 2020>Stop testing for Covid and Covid will go away!Trump 2025>There have been no border crossings since I took office!Interesting
>>1446040If the only way into the country is bribing an ICE agent, and you get a free plane ride back when being deported, then really all this does is have illegals pre-pay for the flights home when entering the countryThis is practically a bonus for illegal immigrants
>>1445779>US >first world It's a third world country masquerading as a first world one.
>>1445775>>1445785This is coming from the same people who thought Trump was going to make Mexico pay for a fictional border wall.
