Posted on 02/13/2025 3:33:27 PM PST by CFW
You can almost hear a pin drop at the border.
Border crossings have plummeted to levels not seen in decades this month following President’s Trump’s swift crackdown on illegal immigration across the southwest, The Post can reveal.
So far in February, about 359 illegal migrants per day have been caught across the entire southern border — down more than 90% from February 2024, according to leaked Customs and Border Protection data.
That puts the US on track to have the lowest monthly border crossings in at least 25 years. If the trend continues, the number of illegal migrants coming into the US could hit a level not seen since 1968, nearly 60 years ago.
It’s the lowest the US has seen “in almost a lifetime,” said Mark Krikorian, the executive director at the Center for Immigration Studies.
“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,” he said.
The CBP data shows that just 3,953 illegal migrants have been caught this month through Feb. 11.
If the trend continues through the month, that would put February border crossings at roughly 10,000, which is a number that hasn’t been seen since CBP began tracking month-to-month data in 1999.
The closest crossings have come to 10,000 was in April 2017 — shortly after Trump took office the first time — when monthly crossings exceeded 11,000.
“That’s a very, very low number,” said John Gramlich, the associate director at the Pew Research Center.
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We need to get rid of more people too
The numbers are going to get even lower.
A bunch of IRS agents are currently in training for ICE duties at the border.
They will significantly beef up manpower.
After four years of Sleepy Joe I’d be surprised if there were any people left in Mexico or South or Central America to cross the border.
That’s a win!!!
When they're done with that they can mow our lawns.
“We need to get rid of more people too.”
Well, between their abortions, gender confusion, male hatred, and trans mutilations they are pretty much taking care of that for us.
Lol—I think the border is where they will stay.
There is always plenty of work to be done there.
180 million people in Mexico and Central America. We barely took a dent.
When I was young, high school teenagers wanted to do that.....
BUT BUT BUT Chomo Joe had the most secure border in history. Just ask the democrats.
I wonder how they’ll spin this to say it is thanks to Chomo Joe’s border policies.
I still mow my lawn - it keeps me out of the gym. If I’m traveling the neighbor kid is happy to have me hire him.
I would if I could...I lost a leg a few years back...
What was done with those caught?
Drug seizures?
Sorry to read that. I live in a place where Americans generally do the jobs ‘Americans are no longer doing’ (except roofing sadly). Do you have local labor?
Mayorkas belongs in prison. He sat before one Congressional committee after another and lied about operational security of the border. Repeatedly.
A lot more Biden officials belong in prison, but he is one of the top five on my list. There are many young girls that would be alive and untouched today if it wasn’t for former Dept of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas.
But who will pick the:
Cotton
Green Beans
Strawberries
Oranges
Avocados...?
Who will mow our ‘selected’ leaders’ lawns? Who will ‘Nanny’ their children? Who will tend to their pools? Who will FEED them? Who will guard their gated gates?
*SMIRK*
Bravo, President Trump! MAGA!
Once the fence is completed and all the incentives to illegal entry are removed through oversight and E-Verify, we will no longer need 18,000 agents on the southern border.
There remains decades of work to be done in the interior of the country that ICE can never accomplish on their own.
Fortunately the USBP has a long history of interior enforcement and they will be more than happy to turn north and let slip the dogs of war.
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