Unlawful crossings alongside the US-Mexico border plummeted to a 55-year low in fiscal yr 2025 – with the overwhelming majority of illegal makes an attempt to enter the nation happening through the last months of the Biden administration.
Federal authorities apprehended a complete of 237,565 migrants alongside the southwest border through the interval between Oct. 1, 2024 and Sept. 30, 2025, in response to knowledge launched Tuesday by the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) and US Customs and Border Safety (CBP).
The determine is the bottom fiscal yr complete for apprehensions since 1970, when authorities caught 201,780 migrants making an attempt to cross the US-Mexico boundary.
It’s also 87% lower than the common variety of apprehensions over the past 4 fiscal years, which was about 1.86 million, in response to DHS.
“We’ve had essentially the most safe border in American historical past and our finish of yr numbers show it,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem mentioned in a assertion. “We’ve shattered a number of information this yr and as soon as once more we now have damaged a brand new document with the bottom variety of Southwest border apprehensions in 55 years.”
“Underneath President Trump, we now have empowered and supported our legislation enforcement to do their job and so they have delivered.”
A lot of the apprehensions in fiscal yr 2025 occurred through the last three months of the Biden administration, underneath which a mean of about 2.4 million migrants poured into the nation yearly between 2021 and 2024 — most crossing into the US illegally.
Throughout the first 111 days of the fiscal yr, when former President Joe Biden was nonetheless in workplace, border brokers apprehended 172,026 people — 72% of the 2025 complete
Over the following 254 days, the Trump administration recorded 65,539 apprehensions, or 27% of the yr’s complete.
For the month of September, apprehensions alongside the southwest border totaled about 8,400 – up from 6,300 in August and the July record-low month-to-month complete of 4,600.
For the fifth consecutive month, nonetheless, authorities launched zero migrants into the US all through September, in response to DHS.
Underneath Biden, 9,144 migrants have been launched into the nation simply in September 2024.
President Trump acted rapidly to seal the southern border upon taking workplace in January, deploying hundreds of troops to discourage unlawful crossings, shifting to droop asylum claims and overhauling Biden-era immigration insurance policies.
Trump has additionally tasked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with apprehending and deporting unlawful migrants within the inside of the nation.
ICE is on observe to deport 600,000 unlawful migrants this yr – and greater than 2 million unlawful migrants have voluntarily left the nation since January, in response to DHS knowledge obtained by The Submit.
