Biden’s border turnaround? Illegal immigration drops to Trump-era levels

Published August 3, 2024 5:00am ET



The number of migrants arrested after attempting to enter the United States from Mexico has dropped to levels not seen since the Trump administration, an abrupt turnaround just in time for Vice President Kamala Harris‘s presidential run.

Four Border Patrol officials with access to federal government data shared with the Washington Examiner that the number of migrants apprehended each day for illegally entering the U.S. from Mexico has averaged between 1,670 and 2,500 arrests over the past 10 days.

Those figures track with the final months of 2020, right as former President Donald Trump prepared to leave office. Then, arrests averaged between 2,350 and 2,500 per day — or between 65,000 and 75,000 arrests in a month, according to Border Patrol statistics.

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