Migrant arrests at the border of the US Mexico in March were the lowest ever recorded

02 April 2025 04:34 AM IST USA-Trump/Migration Crossings: Migrant Arrestations at the US border in March in March lowest ever recorded by Ryan Patrick Jones Migrant Instarters to the SU-Mexico border in the lowest March ever recorded on April 1- crossed. Tuesday released by the US government. In a news release, the US Customs and Border Protection said the data currently shows that about 7.180 migrants were arrested on the border in March, which would be the lowest monthly total on record. The number of migrant arrests in March is lower than a monthly average of 155,000 over the past four years, the border patrol agency said. Final numbers for March will be released in the coming days, CBP said. “Border patrol agents are empowered as never before to close illegal entry and protect American lives,” said acting CBP commissioner Pete Flores in the release. President Donald Trump, a Republican, has taken a variety of actions to prevent illegal intersections at the US and Mexico border after returning to the White House on January 20, saying that a collapse is needed after high migration levels among his democratic predecessor, former president Joe Biden. Trump’s movements were, among other things, the rising military troops and the implementation of a diverse ban on asylum on the border. His measures are built on a few initiatives that are already underway at the end of Biden’s tenure, including a similar asylum ban and an attempt to increase Mexican enforcement. The measures seem to have reduced. US border patrol’s monthly enforcement statistics go back to 2000. The lowest monthly total of 8,347 was recorded last month. Previously, the lowest monthly total was on record in April 2017, when the agency arrested 11.127 at the beginning of Trump’s first term. While the number of border rests dropped in the same way at the beginning of Trump’s presidency 2017-2021 -which some called ‘the Trump effect’, they dropped in a few months and years that followed. Migrant arrests are often used as a proxy to estimate illegal intersections, although some migrants are also unnoticed. This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without edits to text.