Illegal Alien Arrests at Border Fall to 263 Per Day During Trump’s First Two Months

Aggressive enforcement actions along the U.S.-Mexico border led to a nearly 94 percent drop in the apprehension of illegal aliens attempting to enter the United States. The apprehension of migrants by Border Patrol agents fell to approximately 263 per day during the first two months of the Trump administration from more than 4,600 per day during the same period last year.

According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Southwest Land Border Encounters Report for March, Border Patrol agents arrested 15,527 migrants who illegally crossed the border from Mexico into the United States during the first two full months of the Trump administration. This compares to the apprehension of 278,114 during the same period under the Biden administration last year. Encounters fell from 4,635 per day in February and March 2024 to 263 per day this year.

“U.S. Border Patrol’s apprehensions along the southwest border for the entire month of March 2025 were lower than the first two days of March 2024,” Acting Commissioner of CBP Pete Flores said in a written statement this week.  {snip}

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