Southern border apprehensions plunge more than 90% from year ago in April, CBP says

FIRST ON FOX - Apprehensions astatine the U.S.-Mexico borderline person plummeted 93% nether President Donald Trump's administration, according to caller information from U.S. Customs and Border Protection released Monday.

The CBP says it averaged 279 apprehensions per time astatine the confederate borderline successful April, compared to 4,297 apprehensions successful April 2024. The full apprehensions for April this twelvemonth landed astatine 8,383, compared to past year's 129,000.

CBP officials besides noted that conscionable 5 amerciable aliens were temporarily released into the U.S. during April, compared to 68,000 during the aforesaid period past year.

"For the archetypal clip successful years, much agents are backmost successful the tract – patrolling territories that CBP didn’t person the bandwidth oregon manpower to oversee conscionable six months ago," said Pete Flores, acting commissioner of CBP. "But acknowledgment to this administration’s melodramatic displacement successful information posture astatine our border, we are present seeing operational power becoming a world – and it’s lone conscionable beginning."

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection says apprehensions astatine the confederate borderline dropped 93% twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth successful April. (Border image: Getty / Trump image: AP)

The CBP besides noted that cause seizures roseate 15% from March to April. Officials accidental they seized immoderate 758 pounds of fentanyl crossing the borderline past month.

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The study shows the Trump administration's continued advancement connected controlling the borderline since March. The CBP recorded the lowest southwest borderline crossings successful past successful March, with less apprehensions successful the full period than determination were successful the archetypal 2 days of the period successful 2024 nether the Biden administration.

Illegal migration has plummeted since President Biden near office. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Border Patrol apprehended a full of 7,181 illegal aliens attempting to transverse the confederate borderline betwixt ports of introduction successful March. This constitutes a 14% alteration from February, erstwhile Border Patrol apprehended 8,346 aliens, and much dramatically, a 95% decrease from the 137,473 aliens apprehended nether the Biden medication successful the aforesaid play successful 2024.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shared an representation of bluish fentanyl pills, multi-colored fentanyl pills and methamphetamine precocious seized astatine the Port of Nogales, Arizona.  (U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) )

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"Aliens are receiving the Trump administration’s message: if you transverse the borderline illegally, you volition beryllium deported," CBP said successful its latest report.

Fox News' Peter Pinedo contributed to this report.