“Illegal border crossings were the lowest recorded — ever,” Trump said. However, public monthly data only goes back to 2000, and border crossings have been falling over the past year after rising to record highs in 2023. It’s unclear if crossings will continue to drop in the weeks ...
While monthly data before fiscal year 2000 is not publicly available, the last time Border Patrol averaged roughly 8,000 apprehensions per month over a year was in fiscal year 1968, according tohistorical statistics. Illegal crossings along the U.S. southern border have been trending ...
Following a lull in January, illegal crossings of the southern border are back on the rise. The U.S. Border Patrol made more than 140,000 migrant apprehensions last month, up from about 125,000 in January, according to sources familiar with internal Customs and Border Protection data. ...
Irregular border crossings drop across EU Frontex, the EU’s border agency, reported 13,400 irregular border crossings in January 2025, a 22% drop from January 2024. Migration patterns vary, with some routes seeing fewer crossings while others increase. The Western Balkans route had the largest ...
Migrants sit in a queue outside of The Roosevelt Hotel that is being used by the city as temporary housing on Monday, July 31, 2023, in New York.John Minchillo / AP The influx in illegal crossings has alsoimpacted large citiesin the northern U.S., mainly New York City, which for mon...
Plus, President Joe Biden introduced major asylum restrictions in June. Crossings are still high by historical standards and record numbers of forcibly displaced people worldwide — more than 117 million at the end of last year, according to the U.N. refugee agency — may make the drop ...
smooth customs clearance during the period. Measures included forecasting peak travel times, efficient staffing, increasing inspection lanes, and partnering with Hong Kong and Macao SARs’ immigration authorities to manage the surges in passenger flow, so as to ensure safe and orderly border crossings....
This represents a 120 per cent drop on the same month in 2023 despite the addition in September of 42 per cent more border to check. The Schengen Borders Code (SBC) allows member states to temporarily reintroduce border controls in the event of a serious threat to inte...
AP joined the Border Patrol for six hours in San Diego, the busiest corridor for illegal crossings much of the last year, and found no migrants until the last half-hour.
Under the plan announced on Thursday, Mexico will accept up to 30,000 expelled migrants per month from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela. Migrants who cannot be expelled back to Mexico increasingly will be subjected to a rapid deportation process known as "expedited removal,...