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    "'Encounters' at U.S.-Mexico border at lowest level in more than 50
    years"

    "Trump's executive orders, stepped-up border security and end of Biden
    asylum scheme all made difference"

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    <https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/02/migrant-encounters- at-the-us-mexico-border-are-at-their-lowest-level-in-more-than-50-years/>

    "Migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border are at their lowest level
    in more than 50 years
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    John Gramlich
    U.S. Border Patrol encounters with migrants crossing into the United
    States from Mexico have fallen to their lowest level in more than 50
    years, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of statistics from the federal government.

    The Border Patrol recorded 237,538 encounters with migrants at the U.S.-
    Mexico border in the 2025 fiscal year, which began in October 2024 and
    ended in September 2025. That was down from more than 1.5 million
    encounters in fiscal 2024, more than 2 million in fiscal 2023 and a
    record of more than 2.2 million in fiscal 2022. The 2025 total was the
    lowest in any fiscal year since 1970, according to historical data from
    the Border Patrol.

    About this research
    In 2025, encounters with migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border fell to their lowest level since 1970
    Migrant encounters by U.S. Border Patrol at the U.S.-Mexico border, by
    fiscal year
    ’60
    ’65
    ’70
    ’75
    ’80
    ’85
    ’90
    ’95
    ’00
    ’05
    ’10
    ’15
    ’20
    ’25
    500,000
    1,000,000
    1,500,000
    2,000,000
    2,500,000
    Note: Beginning in fiscal 2020, totals combine apprehensions and
    expulsions into a new category known as encounters. Totals before March
    2020 include apprehensions only. Some migrants are encountered more than
    once.
    Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
    PEW RESEARCH CENTER
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    In this analysis, the term “encounters” refers primarily to Border Patrol apprehensions of migrants crossing into the U.S. between official points
    of entry. It refers to events, not people. Border Patrol agents may
    encounter some migrants more than once – for example, if a migrant is apprehended and deported but tries to enter the U.S. again.

    The dramatic decline in migrant encounters follows a series of policy
    changes in both the U.S. and Mexico during both the Biden and Trump administrations:

    In April 2024, then-U.S. President Joe Biden and then-Mexican President
    Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced an agreement to step up immigration enforcement. Mexico’s increased enforcement reportedly has played a significant role in reducing migrant flows to the U.S.
    In June 2024 and again in September 2024, the Biden administration
    imposed new restrictions on migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.
    Immediately after returning to office in January 2025, President Donald
    Trump declared a national emergency at the southwestern border and
    directed the U.S. military to assist with border security. The
    administration also shut down a Biden-era app that had allowed migrants
    to apply for asylum.
    The Trump administration has increased arrests and deportations of
    migrants from the interior of the U.S., potentially deterring new migrant arrivals at the border.
    Related: How Americans view key Trump administration immigration policies

    Monthly statistics show an even greater decline in migrant encounters in Trump’s second term
    While annual statistics show a huge decline in migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border in the 2025 fiscal year, these numbers understate the decrease that has occurred since Trump’s second term began on Jan. 20,
    2025.

    Monthly migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border have slowed to a
    trickle in Trump’s second term
    Migrant encounters by U.S. Border Patrol at the U.S.-Mexico border, by
    month
    50,000
    100,000
    150,000
    200,000
    250,000
    Jan’01
    Jan’03
    Jan’05
    Jan’07
    Jan’09
    Jan’11
    Jan’13
    Jan’15
    Jan’17
    Jan’19
    Jan’21
    Jan’23
    Jan’25
    Note: Beginning in March 2020, monthly totals combine apprehensions and expulsions into a new category known as encounters. Monthly totals before March 2020 include apprehensions only. Some migrants are encountered more
    than once.
    Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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    The federal fiscal year runs from October to the end of September, so
    fiscal 2025 included nearly four months of the Biden administration.
    Migrant encounters during Biden’s last four months in office were much
    higher than in the months after Trump’s return.

    Since February 2025, the first full month of Trump’s current term, the
    Border Patrol has recorded fewer than 10,000 encounters a month at the southwestern border. Those are the lowest totals in more than 25 years of available monthly data. Recent totals have been even lower than the
    16,182 encounters in April 2020, when international migration plummeted
    in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic.

    Historically, the number of migrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico
    has varied based on factors such as economic, political and security conditions in migrants’ home countries and policy changes in the U.S.,
    Mexico and elsewhere"

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