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Illegal border crossing fell by 90 percent compared with the same period last year, data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported.
Only 359 illegal migrants per day have been caught across the southern border in February, the lowest number recorded since 1968.
“If you kind of break down the numbers, divide them by 365, we haven’t had numbers this low since the 1960s. So we’re talking 60-year lows if it’s sustained, obviously,” said Mark Krikorian, the executive director at the Center for Immigration Studies.
During the same period last year, officers processed over 4,800 migrants per day.
The improved numbers at the southern border are in addition to mass deportations of illegal immigrants launched under the direction of border czar Tom Homan. He is currently seeking $175 billion more in funding to help secure the border and implement the president’s policies.
Homan also reported on the number of migrant criminals arrested since Trump’s return to the White House.
“We’ve achieved success on the border already. We’ve got more work to do. And as far as the deportation operation, we’re just shy of — I think we got 5,000 arrested the first week, and a majority of them being criminals,” Homan Homan told Maria Bartiromo in a Fox News interview earlier this month.
“The non-criminals the media’s talking about, who are these non-criminals? The non-criminals are arrested in sanctuary cities because you force us into the community rather than arresting the bad guy in jail, and when we find that criminal, he’s most likely with others, and they’re going to go too. If you want to be a sanctuary city, you’re going to get more agents in the community and more upon-criminals arrested,” he added.
President Donald Trump’s White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that deportation flights of illegal immigrants began in late January. She shared the news alongside images of immigrants walking onto military aircraft for departure.
“Deportation flights have begun,” Leavitt posted to X.
“President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: if you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences,” she added.