A DHS official has told Breitbart News that the agency will end the year with fewer Border Patrol arrests of illegal aliens than at any time since 1970.
The total arrests in fiscal year 2025, which ends September 30, are projected to be around 235,000. More than 70 percent of these arrests — about 170,000 — occurred during the last three months of the Biden administration. During the first eight months of the Trump administration, Border Patrol agents have carried out fewer than 70,000 apprehensions. And the numbers per month are steadily decreasing: approximately 6,300 migrants were apprehended in August, while September apprehensions will be well under 6,000.
In 1971, the Border Patrol arrested 263,991 illegal border crossers. The projected 235,000 for this year is a sharp drop from those figures and is significantly lower than the crisis levels seen under Biden. In May 2022, for example, during the peak of the Biden border crisis, agents apprehended 223,370. For the entire FY22, the Biden administration’s open border policies led to 2,206,436 migrant apprehensions. This year’s estimated total of approximately 235,000 represents a drop of more than 89 percent.
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