By The Opinion
Dec 19, 2024, 10:21 PM EST
President Biden will end his administration with low levels of illegal immigration at his southern border, with fewer than 100,000 migrants detained at the US-Mexico border in November.
Arrests between ports of entry on the US southern border last November decreased 76% compared to the same month last year, an achievement achieved after the asylum restrictions imposed by Joe Biden last June.
In November, In the second month of fiscal year 2025, about 46,610 migrants were arrested between ports of entry on the southwest border, according to data revealed this Thursday by the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP, in English).
The number of arrests in November was 18% lower than in Octobera decrease that has continued since asylum restrictions were implemented on June 5.
The total number of apprehensions of undocumented immigrants at the southwest border in November, including those of foreign nationals who arrived at ports of entry without an appointment from the CBP One online application, was 51,190 compared to the total of 61,420 recorded in October.
CBP detailed monthly decreases of 19% in family apprehensions, 18% in single adults and 2% in children traveling alone.
Biden’s executive order has also reduced the time it takes to remove people who do not establish a legal basis for remaining in the United States to more than half its historical average, and has doubled the percentage of noncitizens processed for expedited removal.
The number of people released by Border Patrol to await immigration court proceedings has decreased by 70%.
CBP Acting Commissioner Troy Miller highlighted in a statement that the Border Patrol’s effortscombined with executive actions and coordination with Mexico and Central American countries in recent months, “are having a sustained and significant impact,” which has led to arrests decreasing again.
The United States repatriated more than 700,000 immigrants in fiscal year 2024, the highest number recorded since 2010, a record of expulsions that President-elect Donald Trump has promised to surpass.
If the trend continues, Biden will deliver a number of arrests as low as the last months of the Trump presidency, which in September 2020 reported 54,771 arrests on the border that divides the US with Mexico
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