Illegal Crossings Into US Cut In Half Since Historic High At Year’s End – By John Oyewale (Daily Caller) / Feb 23, 2024
Illegal immigration along the southwest border of the US has halved since hitting historic highs in December 2023, according to official statistics.
“In January 2024, the U.S. Border Patrol recorded 124,220 encounters between ports of entry along the southwest border, a decrease of 50% from December 2023,” the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in its January monthly update. By contrast, there were 249, 785 such encounters in Dec. 2023, the CBP said in its December 2023 monthly update. The decrease reportedly was reached in the first two weeks of January.
“CBP’s total encounters along the southwest border in January 2024 were 176,205, a decrease of 42% from December 2023,” the CBP added. There reportedly were 302,034 such encounters in December 2023.
The Border Patrol encounters of 249,785 in December 2023 comprised “the highest monthly total on record, easily eclipsing the previous peak of about 224,000 encounters in May 2022,” according to Pew Research
