The Biden administration credits recent executive action as the reason behind the drop
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Important Takeaways:
- The number of unlawful crossings by migrants at the US southern border has dropped for the fifth consecutive month, according to official data.
- US Border Patrol agents apprehended around 57,000 migrants along the border in July – the lowest recorded since September 2020.
- The numbers are down significantly from December, when around 250,000 migrants were caught crossing the border.
- President Joe Biden’s administration has credited the decrease to recent actions by him to tackle illegal immigration into the US, an election-year political vulnerability for the Democrats.
- Government data shows that the number of migrants stopped at the US-Mexico border had dropped even before the order.
- Border Patrol recorded 141,000 apprehensions in February, 137,000 in March, 129,000 in April, 118,000 in May and 84,000 in June.
- The figures do not include official border crossings, where the Biden administration has been processing around 1,500 migrants each day through a smartphone app that schedules appointments between migrants and US border agents.
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