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By Billal Rahman
Immigration Reporter
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President Joe Biden's reelection campaign received a major boost as figures showed border arrests plummeted by nearly a third last month.
Arrests for illegally entering the U.S. from Mexico plunged by 29% in June, to the lowest monthly level of the Biden administration, according to data gathered by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Overall, there were 83,536 arrests in June, down from 117,901 in May to mark the lowest tally since January 2021, CBP said.
The figures come after a Gallup poll showed voters are backing former president Donald Trump's calls to cut immigration figures. The majority of Americans surveyed, 55%, want to see immigration levels decrease.
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Arrests for illegally crossing the border have drastically fallen after Biden announced significant new executive action aimed at preventing the U.S.-Mexico border from becoming overwhelmed.
CBP figures show a significant decline in migrant encounters following a Presidential Proclamation announced on June 4, 2024, to temporarily suspend the entry of certain noncitizens across the southern border.
Immigration is one of the top five issues in voters' minds in the run-up to the presidential election.
"Recent border security measures have made a meaningful impact on our ability to impose consequences for those crossing unlawfully, leading to a decline of 29% in U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions from May to June, with a more than 50% drop in the seven-day average from the announcement to the end of the month, and doubling the rate at which we removed noncitizens from U.S. Border Patrol custody in June," Troy A. Miller, the CBP senior official performing the duties of the commissioner, said in the statement announcing the figures.
"We are continuing to work with international partners to go after transnational criminal organizations that traffic in chaos and prioritize profit over human lives."
Data gathered by the CBP provides a glimpse into the impact of Biden's controversial policy to temporarily suspend asylum claims.
The number of encounters at the Southwest Border has decreased by more than 50% in the past six weeks, and the Border Patrol's seven-day average has fallen below 1,900 encounters per day.
Arrests had already dropped by more than half from a record high of 250,000 in December, also due to increased enforcement by Mexican authorities, according to U.S. officials.
Sharp declines were observed across various nationalities, including Mexicans, who have been most severely impacted by the suspension of asylum claims, and Chinese nationals, who tend to fly to Ecuador and travel to the U.S. border by land.
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San Diego was the busiest of the Border Patrol's nine sectors bordering Mexico in terms of arrests, followed by Tucson, Arizona.
In June, more than 41,000 people legally entered the U.S. through the CBP One online appointment app. Since its introduction in January 2023, the app has facilitated 680,500 successful appointments.
Almost 500,000 people from four countries entered under a policy allowing two-year stays, provided they have financial sponsors and arrive at an airport. This group includes 104,130 Cubans, 194,027 Haitians, 86,101 Nicaraguans and 110,541 Venezuelans, according to CBP data.
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