CBP releases March border crossing numbers, marking lowest to date ever recorded

The latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) numbers amusement that during March, the southwest borderline saw the lowest fig of crossings ever, with conscionable 7,180 recorded.

"Under the enactment of President [Donald] Trump and [DHS] Secretary [Kristi] Noem, the medication has taken bold, decisive enactment to reconstruct power astatine the border. Border Patrol agents are empowered similar ne'er earlier to unopen down unlawful introduction and support American lives," Pete Flores, acting CBP commissioner, said. "The connection is clear: the borderline is closed to amerciable crossings, and for those inactive consenting to trial our resolve, cognize this — you volition beryllium prosecuted, and you volition beryllium deported."

March's numbers — with 1,146 less crossings than successful February — correspond a melodramatic driblet compared to the monthly mean of 155,000 during the Biden administration. Under erstwhile President Joe Biden, borderline agents often recorded implicit 7,000 borderline crossings per day.

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Migrants enactment up astatine a distant U.S. Border Patrol processing halfway aft crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Dec. 7, 2023, successful Lukeville, Ariz. (John Moore/Getty Images)

The regular apprehensions on the southwest borderline person besides fallen to astir 230 per day, CBP said, which is simply a fig the U.S. has ne'er seen.

CBP said that nether the Biden administration, determination were an mean of 5,100 encounters per day.

The last monthly numbers are expected to travel retired successful the coming days.

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Migrants seeking asylum successful the U.S. arsenic they queue astatine El Chaparral borderline crossing successful Tijuana, Mexico.  (Reuters/Jorge Duenes)

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt connected Tuesday praised the quality astir the fig of southwest borderline crossings successful March.

"Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, borderline patrol agents are present backmost to doing the jobs they signed up for: securing the border, alternatively than serving arsenic question agents for amerciable aliens," she said. "The Los Angeles Times captured the Trump effect connected the borderline with a caller article. Their header work ‘California, Mexico border, erstwhile overwhelmed, is present astir bare with truthful fewer migrants coming into the U.S.’ They wrote, ‘shelters that erstwhile served migrants person wholly closed.’ 

"Deportations of amerciable aliens who endanger the information of the American radical are besides continuing astatine a accelerated pace."

The figures travel aft Trump announced earlier this period that apprehensions fell to 8,326 successful February, his archetypal afloat period successful office, which helium said is simply a record-setting low. The fig marks a 96% driblet from the highs of the Biden medication successful December 2023.

TRUMP ADMIN ENDS DEPORTATION PROTECTIONS FOR MASSIVE NUMBER OF VENEZUELANS AMID ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN

President Donald Trump successful West Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 6, 2024. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Following the announcement, Trump defiantly declared that the borderline is present closed and that each those who crossed the confederate borderline would beryllium rapidly ejected oregon prosecuted for crimes against the U.S.

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Trump has besides signed orders ending birthright citizenship, suspending exile admissions, ending the usage of an app astatine the confederate borderline to admit migrants via humanitarian parole and resuming borderline partition construction.

Trump’s hard-line attack to amerciable migration was a cardinal run committedness and his medication has besides been arresting and deporting transgression amerciable migrants crossed the state nether the enactment of Noem and borderline czar Tom Homan.

Fox News Digital’s Michael Dorgan and Brooke Taylor contributed to this report.