Significant Drop in Illegal Border Crossings as 2025 Fiscal Year Nears End
With only two weeks left in the 2025 fiscal year, arrests of illegal immigrants along the border have plummeted to levels not seen since 1970. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials shared with Breitbart Texas that this decrease represents a remarkable achievement, especially considering the previous months where illegal crossings were significantly high under the Biden administration.
Sources suggest that the total number of undocumented individuals apprehended by border patrols along the southern border will be around 235,000 by the end of the fiscal year on September 30th. This figure is markedly lower than the 70,000 reported during the last eight months of the Trump administration, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data provided to Breitbart Texas. Historical records indicate that in 1970, Border Patrol made 201,780 arrests, and this number rose to 263,991 in 1971. This year’s total is projected to be lower than both of those figures due to recent policies.
Over the first ten months of this fiscal year, commencing on October 1, 2025, agents confronted 222,863 migrants crossing the border illegally between entry points. Reports suggested approximately 6,300 arrests in August, and projections for September estimate that the number will fall below 6,000, leading to an annual projection of 235,000 arrests.
In May 2022, at the height of the Biden administration’s border challenges, agents made 223,370 arrests in a single month. The open border policy during that time resulted in 2,206,436 encounters over the entire year. This year’s estimated total of around 235,000 marks an over 89% decrease from 2022 and nearly an 85% drop from last year.
Between fiscal years 2021 and 2024, Border Patrol under the Biden administration arrested a total of 7,442,003 migrants. Comparatively, the first four years of Trump’s term (2017-2020) saw only 2,152,655 arrests.
Recent sources indicated that monthly arrests along the southwest border have significantly decreased from less than 7,000 in the final months of the Biden administration, thanks to new, stricter border control policies enacted during Trump’s tenure.
