CV NEWS FEED // According to federal government statistics, the number of migrants authorities encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border reached a remarkable low just weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term.
“Since Trump’s inauguration, the southern border has suddenly become quiet,” conservative scholar Marc Thiessen wrote in a Tuesday column for The Washington Post titled “What happened to the border crisis? Donald Trump ended it for free.”
“On Feb. 16, just 229 people were encountered by Border Patrol agents trying to illegally cross the southern border,” Thiessen wrote. “On Feb. 22, encounters fell to just 200, the lowest single day total in over 15 years.”
“Contrast that with the all-time high of 11,000 encounters on Dec. 18, 2023, under Biden,” Thiessen added. “That’s a 98 percent drop.”
In addition, Thiessen emphasized that “Trump has achieved all this without any new authorities from Congress.”
Last week, Trump’s White House Border Czar Tom Homan wrote on X that in a 24-hour period in mid-February, “the US Border Patrol has encountered a total of 229 aliens across the entire southwest border … over 11,000 a day under Biden.”
“I started as a Border Patrol Agent in 1984 and I don’t remember the numbers ever being that low,” Homan noted. “President Trump promised a secure border and he is delivering.”
In the last 24 hours the US Border Patrol has encountered a total of 229 aliens across the entire southwest border. That is down from a high of over 11,000 a day under Biden. I started as a Border Patrol Agent in 1984 and I don’t remember the numbers ever being that low.…
— Thomas D. Homan (@RealTomHoman) February 17, 2025
“Under President Trump’s leadership,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X Monday, “we’re already seeing historic results at the southern border. We just broke a 15-year record—only 200 encounters in one day, compared to 15,000 daily under Biden.”
During a recent FOX News appearance, Noem referred to February border numbers, noting: “A lot of fantastic news because of President Trump.”
“We only had 200 encounters at the border when under the Biden administration on our worst days we saw up to 15-16,000 encounters,” she continued. “So, to have that kind of a drop under President Trump is because of a change of policy, it’s because telling the world to stay away.”
Under President Trump’s leadership, we’re already seeing historic results at the southern border.
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) February 25, 2025
We just broke a 15-year record—only 200 encounters in one day, compared to 15,000 daily under Biden.
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“If you want to come to this country illegally you will be stopped because America comes first,” the secretary emphasized.
Noem went on to call Trump “so firm and so confident,” adding that he “wants to uphold the law” and “follows through with consequences when people don’t.”
“The wins just keep coming because we have a president that believes in this country,” she went on. “And he listened to the American people and he actually brought the kind of success that this country was so desperate for.”