Border crossings decreased in early 2025.
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Badlands MediaOct 21, 2026
Multiple primary federal sources show border crossings fell sharply in early 2025: CBP monthly apprehensions dropped from 48,137 in December 2024 to 30,127 in January 2025 and 9,241 in February 2025, and Reuters reports Border Patrol apprehensions fell to the lowest levels in decades after January 2025.
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… student enrollment has taken a nosedive in California schools, and just to go through this real quickly here, the number of new immigrant students, or quote unquote newcomers, in the first three years in the Us. Has fallen sharply over the past two years. This follows an abrupt decrease in border crossings in early 2025. Shocker for anybody that might not have realized that. The decline has been particularly pronounced in some large urban districts already reeling from years of enrollment losses. …
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Supports. CBP's FY2025 nationwide encounter table shows Border Patrol apprehensions falling from 48,137 in December 2024 to 30,127 in January 2025 and 9,241 in February 2025.[2]
Supports. Reuters reports Border Patrol caught about 86,000 migrants crossing illegally in the year beginning February 1, 2025, versus 956,000 in the same period under Biden, with the number falling to the lowest levels in decades after Trump took office.[1]
Supports. The Washington Post reports that in early 2025 border crossings stopped almost overnight in South Texas, and the LA Times describes an abrupt decrease in border crossings in early 2025.[5][6]
Context. The White House and DHS releases attribute the decline to the administration's enforcement measures; the DHS release is a partisan source, but its underlying figures match the independent CBP table.[3][4]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 3 primary, 1 tier 2, 1 not rated
- 1What do the numbers show about Trump's immigration ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Nationwide Encounters Fiscal Year 2025cbp.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3ICYMI: “Illegal crossings along U.S.-Mexico border ...whitehouse.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 4Border Crossings Once Again at a Record Low in November 2025dhs.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 5Trump closed down the border — and ended it as a campaign issuewashingtonpost.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 6California schools see sharp drop in new immigrant student ...latimes.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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