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EAGLE PASS, Texas (NewsNation) — Vice President JD Vance volition sojourn the U.S. confederate borderline connected Wednesday to item the administration's pugnacious migration policies arsenic the White House touts a crisp diminution successful borderline crossings.
Border information is simply a apical precedence for President Donald Trump, and Vance's travel marks the highest-ranking authoritative from the medication to sojourn the borderline since helium took bureau six weeks ago.
Alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, Vance volition circuit a national migration processing installation successful Eagle Pass, Texas, erstwhile considered a hotspot for amerciable crossings.
This sojourn comes arsenic the White House pushes its "whole of government" approach, coordinating efforts betwixt the departments of Homeland Security, Defense and Justice.
Trump touts decline in illegal border crossings
Illegal crossings astatine the southern border have reportedly dropped 94% compared to past year, according to Border Patrol officials, and the diminution is attributed to respective factors — including labeling cartel groups arsenic violent organizations, boosting ICE deportations and deploying subject resources for enforcement and deportation flights.
A twelvemonth ago, determination was an mean of 4,800 migrant encounters daily, officials said; that fig has present reportedly dropped to less than 300. Areas similar Eagle Pass and Del Rio successful South Texas that erstwhile saw thousands of amerciable crossings under the Biden medication present reportedly mean little than 50 encounters per day.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said February marked the “lowest period successful recorded past for (migrant) encounters astatine our border.”
She reposted Trump’s societal media station that said determination were 8,326 apprehensions of undocumented immigrants by Border Patrol agents astatine the U.S.-Mexico borderline successful February.
“My archetypal afloat period successful Office, had the LOWEST fig of amerciable immigrants trying to participate our Country successful History – BY FAR!” Trump wrote connected Truth Social.
The latest Customs and Border Protection data, released successful January, reports a total of 179,572 migrant encounters by Border Patrol agents since the commencement of fiscal twelvemonth 2025 connected Oct. 1 — but that information includes much than 4 months of encounters nether the erstwhile administration.
In January, determination were 29,116 migrant encounters connected the Southwest border, CBP reported. The largest fig of encounters occurred successful the San Diego sector, with 6,397. The Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol reported the second-most encounters with 5,965, and the El Paso assemblage was 3rd with 4,871, CBP said.
The fig of azygous adults encountered connected the Southwest borderline truthful acold successful fiscal twelvemonth 2025 has dropped 73% from the erstwhile year, and the fig of families has dropped 84%, CBP reported.
Customs and Border Protection releases monthly brushwood information but has not yet released February figures.
Trump eyeing program to revive Title 42
Trump is besides considering reinstating Title 42, an exigency wellness authorization that allows migration officials to crook distant migrants astatine the borderline to forestall the dispersed of disease.
If Title 42 were renewed, officials could enact akin restrictions portion citing the imaginable dispersed of diseases specified arsenic tuberculosis, according to interior authorities documents obtained by CBS News.
The argumentation was archetypal enacted successful Trump’s archetypal medication during the COVID-19 pandemic
