Note: The nationwide encounters data from US Customs and Border Protection covers apprehensions, people deemed inadmissible, and expulsions under Titles 8 and 42. This number does not necessarily represent individual people, as one person may be counted several times if they make multiple attempts to cross the border.
About 8,000 attempted crossings of the US-Mexico border were detected in February 2025, 94.1% fewer than in February 2024. This follows a 76.6% decline in January from the prior year.
Here’s some background on how crossings have changed over the past few years:
>These attempted crossings, sometimes referred to as “encounters,” are instances when the US Border Patrol (USBP) apprehended or expelled someone attempting to illegally cross into the US between official ports of entry.
>Detected crossing attempts decreased at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. Encounter levels during this time were similar to the lows reported between 2010 and 2015.
>Around September 2020, the number of detected crossings began to increase and remained high along the southwest US border. During this time and into 2021, the recidivism rate — the likelihood that an individual attempted to cross into the US more than once in a single year — nearly quadrupled compared to pre-pandemic levels. A 2023 Congressional Research Service report attributed this primarily to Title 42, a policy active from March 2020 to May 2023, which made it easier for the government to expel migrants at the border, but did not penalize repeated crossing attempts.
>The total number of detected crossings, which do not differentiate between a new and repeat crossing, continued to rise from 2020 through 2023. They peaked in December 2023 at 249,740 before decreasing throughout 2024.
What was the explanation for the sharp drop starting about a year ago?
Looks like fear is a great deterrent
Why MISLEAD so blatantly OP?
Attempted crossings ≠ Illegal crossings
So the term in the headline & article refer to different things, which you blatantly tried to pretend are the same.
This is “detected” crossings. Not crossings. “Detected” crossings are in fact not crossings at all, they are instances where people are sent back after getting caught. So if it is fair to assuming that if the number of “detected” crossings skyrocketed, then the number of successful crossings plummeted, and vice versa.
People in this thread trying to spin data to meet their political leanings. So sad.
“Millions and millions” if you listen to the orange idiot.
Possibly the only thing Trump has done right so far
It’s interesting that the attempted crossings consistently peaked in March between 2000 and 2012. Wonder if it was migrant farm workers trying to get into the US ahead of planting season. After 2012 the peaks and valleys get a lot more erratic.
How much can be attributed to better enforcement and how much to this country losing it appeal due to its horrid leadership?
So damn, Trump didn’t really do *ish* the first time around. It was Obama who brought it down and Trump just pretty much rode it. In fact, pre-COVID has a huge spike under him.
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Source: US Customs and Border Protection
Tools: Custom
Note: The nationwide encounters data from US Customs and Border Protection covers apprehensions, people deemed inadmissible, and expulsions under Titles 8 and 42. This number does not necessarily represent individual people, as one person may be counted several times if they make multiple attempts to cross the border.
About 8,000 attempted crossings of the US-Mexico border were detected in February 2025, 94.1% fewer than in February 2024. This follows a 76.6% decline in January from the prior year.
Here’s some background on how crossings have changed over the past few years:
>These attempted crossings, sometimes referred to as “encounters,” are instances when the US Border Patrol (USBP) apprehended or expelled someone attempting to illegally cross into the US between official ports of entry.
>Detected crossing attempts decreased at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. Encounter levels during this time were similar to the lows reported between 2010 and 2015.
>Around September 2020, the number of detected crossings began to increase and remained high along the southwest US border. During this time and into 2021, the recidivism rate — the likelihood that an individual attempted to cross into the US more than once in a single year — nearly quadrupled compared to pre-pandemic levels. A 2023 Congressional Research Service report attributed this primarily to Title 42, a policy active from March 2020 to May 2023, which made it easier for the government to expel migrants at the border, but did not penalize repeated crossing attempts.
>The total number of detected crossings, which do not differentiate between a new and repeat crossing, continued to rise from 2020 through 2023. They peaked in December 2023 at 249,740 before decreasing throughout 2024.
What was the explanation for the sharp drop starting about a year ago?
Looks like fear is a great deterrent
Why MISLEAD so blatantly OP?
Attempted crossings ≠ Illegal crossings
So the term in the headline & article refer to different things, which you blatantly tried to pretend are the same.
This is “detected” crossings. Not crossings. “Detected” crossings are in fact not crossings at all, they are instances where people are sent back after getting caught. So if it is fair to assuming that if the number of “detected” crossings skyrocketed, then the number of successful crossings plummeted, and vice versa.
People in this thread trying to spin data to meet their political leanings. So sad.
“Millions and millions” if you listen to the orange idiot.
Possibly the only thing Trump has done right so far
It’s interesting that the attempted crossings consistently peaked in March between 2000 and 2012. Wonder if it was migrant farm workers trying to get into the US ahead of planting season. After 2012 the peaks and valleys get a lot more erratic.
How much can be attributed to better enforcement and how much to this country losing it appeal due to its horrid leadership?
So damn, Trump didn’t really do *ish* the first time around. It was Obama who brought it down and Trump just pretty much rode it. In fact, pre-COVID has a huge spike under him.
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