'Significant' drop in migrant encounters in July — lowest since 2020, CBP reports

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — The fig of migrants encountered connected the Southwest borderline successful July dropped by one-third from June, and was the lowest successful astir 4 years, according to information released Friday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

CBP is crediting an enforcement bid issued successful aboriginal June by President Joe Biden, arsenic good arsenic a last bid implemented later, for the important driblet successful undocumented migrants trying to transverse from Mexico into the United States.,

The bureau reported 56,408 migrant encounters betwixt ineligible U.S. ports of introduction successful July — that's down 32% from June 2024. This is the lowest monthly full reported connected the Southwest borderline since September 2020, the bureau reports.

The full fig of radical who arrived astatine the border, however, including those presenting without documents astatine U.S. ports of entry, was 61,325, which is simply a 30% alteration from June, CBP says.

“In July, our borderline information measures enhanced our quality to present consequences for amerciable introduction – starring to the lowest fig of encounters on the southwest borderline successful much than 3 years,” CBP Acting Commissioner Troy Miller said successful a statement.

“The information published contiguous by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows that aft President Biden announced new, decisive enforcement actions to unafraid the borderline connected June 4, encounters betwixt ports of introduction person dropped significantly. Encounters successful July 2024 were the lowest since September 2020 and little than astatine this constituent successful 2019," White House Spokesperson Angelo Fernández Hernández said.

The fig of unaccompanied minors crossing the borderline decreased by 15%; household units decreased by 24%; and the fig of azygous adults encountered dropped by 27% successful July from June, the bureau reports.

July brushwood numbers were down two-thirds from July 2023, erstwhile Border Patrol agents and CBP officers reported 181,834 migrant encounters connected the Southwest onshore border.

“We are moving intimately with planetary partners to spell aft transnational transgression organizations that postulation successful chaos and prioritize nett implicit quality lives," Miller said.

Under the statesmanlike proclamation issued June 4, asylum-seekers indispensable docket asylum appointments astatine U.S. ports of introduction via the CBP One app, and cannot beryllium encountered irregularly betwixt ports on the border.

CBP reports 38,000 individuals were processed with asylum appointments successful July -- that's an mean of 1,225 per day, which is beneath the 1,450 appointments the bureau says it tin accept.

There are immoderate exceptions to the caller asylum rules -- for unaccompanied children and precise susceptible individuals -- but for the astir portion those presenting extracurricular of these caller rules are being deported and repatriated.

"This medication is orchestrating a monolithic ammunition game, encouraging otherwise-inadmissible aliens to transverse astatine ports of introduction alternatively of betwixt them — thereby creating a façade of improved optics for the administration, but successful world imposing a increasing load connected our communities," U.S. Rep. Mark Green, a Republican from Tennessee who chairs the Homeland Security Committee said successful a statement. Green says that "total encounters astatine our ports — land, sea, and aerial — are up exponentially this fiscal twelvemonth compared to the Biden-Harris administration’s archetypal twelvemonth successful office, and are connected way to surpass past year’s total. Since January 2023, much than 1.28 cardinal inadmissible aliens person been granted introduction to our state astatine authoritative ports of introduction done conscionable the CBP One and CHNV mass-parole programs."

CBP reports that 92,000 radical person been removed oregon sent backmost to much than 130 countries connected implicit 300 repatriation flights since June 5, erstwhile the bid took effect.

The bureau besides reports that operations targeting the inflow of fentanyl from Mexico successful the El Paso and San Diego regions -- called Operation Plaza Spike and Operation Appollo X, respectively -- are starring to much seizure of fentanyl by agents and officers.