President Biden is scheduled to visit the southern border in Brownsville, Texas, later this week, where recent data shows anxiety is among the lowest across the entire border.
On Monday, Border Patrol agents arrested 4,752 illegal immigrants along the southern border from California to Texas, according to a chart provided to Fox News by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sources.
Some locations hit triple digits, including the Eagle Pass station in the Del Rio area, where 511 arrests were reported. 481 arrests were reported at Ajo Station in the Tucson area. 473 arrests were reported at Santa Teresa Station in the El Paso area.
In fact, 15 of the 35 border control stations reported triple-digit numbers, while the remaining stations reported double-digit insecurity on Monday.
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President Biden and immigrants attempting to enter the US (Getty Images)
Of the remaining 20 people, the Brownsville Police Department in the Rio Grande Valley area reported 12 arrests Monday.
Illegal immigrant activity is almost non-existent in Brownsville.
Still, Biden plans to visit the region on Thursday to meet with U.S. Border Patrol agents, law enforcement and local leaders.
On the same day, former President Trump will visit Eagle Pass, Texas.
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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks with a U.S. Border Patrol agent while walking along the U.S.-Mexico border fence on January 8, 2023 in El Paso, Texas. -Biden on Sunday visited the El Paso, Texas, entry point that has been at the center of controversy over illegal immigration and smuggling since his inauguration, his first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
The two cities are approximately 525 miles apart.
A White House official said Biden is expected to use the visit to speak about the importance of passing a bipartisan border security agreement in the Senate, adding that the president “urged Republicans in Congress to stop playing politics and do what is necessary.” I once again urge you to provide sufficient funds.” Additional U.S. Border Patrol agents, additional asylum workers, fentanyl detection technology, and more. ”
In January 2023, Biden visited the border in El Paso, Texas, and experienced what was considered a watered-down version of the border crisis.
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Migrants flooded into the Gateway International Bridge in Brownsville, Texas, last year. (Texas DPS)
The number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. from Mexico in El Paso appears to have plummeted at the time, and the central processing center, which was once filled with migrants, no longer has the capacity to hold about 1,000 migrants, CBP officials said. , migrant camps suddenly disappeared.
Nearly 7.3 million immigrants are known to have illegally crossed the Southwest border since Biden took office, according to a Fox News analysis released last week.
This number is greater than the population of 36 individual states. That’s according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which has already reported 961,537 border encounters in the current fiscal year from October to September. If the current pace of illegal immigration does not slow, the number of encounters at the Southwest border in fiscal year 2024 will break last year’s record of 2,475,669; That would be more than the population of the state of Mexico.
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The total number of encounters at the Southwest land border since Biden took office in 2021 is 7,298,486, according to CBP data.
White House officials did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s inquiries regarding this matter.
Fox News Digital’s Danielle Wallace and Bradford Betz contributed to this report.
