Southern Border Apprehensions Plunge More Than 90% From Year Ago In April, Cbp Says

FIRST ON FOX - Apprehensions astatine nan U.S.-Mexico separator 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 nan confederate separator 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 forbidden aliens were temporarily released into nan U.S. during April, compared to 68,000 during nan aforesaid period past year.

"For nan first clip successful years, much agents are backmost successful nan section – operating territories that CBP didn’t person nan bandwidth aliases 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 now seeing operational power becoming a reality – and it’s only conscionable beginning."

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

The CBP besides noted that supplier seizures roseate 15% from March to April. Officials opportunity they seized immoderate 758 pounds of fentanyl crossing nan separator past month.

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The study shows nan Trump administration's continued advancement connected controlling nan separator since March. The CBP recorded nan lowest southwest separator crossings successful history successful March, pinch less apprehensions successful nan full period than location were successful nan first 2 days of nan period successful 2024 nether nan 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 nan confederate separator 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 nan 137,473 aliens apprehended nether nan Biden management successful nan aforesaid play successful 2024.

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

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

Fox News' Peter Pinedo contributed to this report.