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The daily number of migrants apprehended by Border Patrol agents fell by 62 percent during the past week from a peak of 10,605 one week ago. On Monday, agents apprehended only 3,882 migrants who crossed the southwest border with Mexico between ports of entry. In the two weeks leading up to the end of Title 42, Breitbart Texas reported the daily migrant apprehension rate increased from about 7,400 during the last three days in April to 10,605 on May 10 — one day before the end of Title 42. On the final day of Title 42, that number fell slightly...

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz tweeted on Monday that 26,382 migrants crossed the border between ports of entry during the past three days. An additional 7,399 crossed and managed to avoid apprehension. Chief Ortiz’s tweet reports that approximately 11,260 migrants are known to have crossed the border per day during the past 72 hours. Of those, agents took 26,382 into custody (8,794 per day) while another 7,399 (2,466 per day) are classified as known got-aways.

Some good news on the border. Apprehensions of illegal immigrants dropped again in August, making this the third straight month of decline. From Politico: Border Patrol arrested roughly 51,000 migrants in August, a 30 percent drop from the previous month…Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan addressed the falling arrests Wednesday during a press conference with Trump at the Oval Office. McAleenan said border arrests had been more than halved in August compared with the May peak, but told reporters that finalized statistics were being compiled and would be released next week.Trump praised Mexico’s recent efforts to halt migration during...

For the first time on record, more non-Mexicans than Mexicans were apprehended at U.S. borders in 2014 by the Border Patrol, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of more than 60 years of Border Patrol data. This shift is another sign that unauthorized immigrants from Mexico are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border significantly less often than they did before the Great Recession. About 229,000 Mexicans were apprehended by the Border Patrol in fiscal year 2014 compared with 257,000 non-Mexicans during the previous year, according to recently published Border Patrol data. Taken together, total apprehensions of Mexican and non-Mexican unauthorized immigrants...

WASHINGTON—The government says apprehensions of people for federal immigration violations have dropped to the lowest level in 40 years, reflecting a decline in the northbound traffic of illegal immigrants from Mexico. At the same time, the number of suspects booked by the U.S. Marshals Service for criminal immigration offenses has gone up dramatically, a function of tougher law enforcement on the U.S. side of the border. In a report released Wednesday, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics said the number of immigration-related apprehensions has steadily declined, peaking at 1.8 million in 2000 but dropping to 516,992 in 2010—the lowest level...

NOGALES, Ariz. (Army News Service, July 31, 2006) – The number of illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico into the U.S. Border Patrol’s busy Tucson, Ariz., sector have dropped from about 600 a day in March to 200 this month, according to Border Patrol officials. Although apprehension rates typically vary with the season, Border Patrol officials attribute the latest drop to the arrival of National Guard troops for Operation Jump Start, the initiative President George W. Bush announced in mid-May to help the Border Patrol secure the U.S. border with Mexico. “We’ve seen dramatic decreases in the number of entries and...

TUCSON - Nearly half of the 491,514 illegal immigrants apprehended by agents of the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector occurred in Cochise County during the last federal fiscal year, according to an agency spokesman. That means the number of illegal border crossers apprehended in the county from Oct. 1, 2003 through Thursday - 235,379 - is slightly more than twice the legal population of the county. Cochise County, which shares slightly less than 90 miles of border with Mexico. The 6,219 square mile county has a population of 117,755 based on the 2000 U.S. Census. The sector's portion of the...

County stations take in majority of sector's illegal immigrants COCHISE COUNTY - This part of Arizona continues to be where most of the illegal immigrants crossing into the United States from Mexico are apprehended, according to figures provided by the Tucson Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol. And at least eight of the illegal immigrants apprehended last month near Douglas had been robbed at gunpoint in Mexico before crossing into the United States. Sector spokesman Andy Adame said Sonora State Police authorities reported that four men robbed seven other men and a woman Friday south of the border. A person...