{"id":2219659,"date":"2024-04-12T17:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T21:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-arrests-dropping-sharply-house-lawmaker-says\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T17:04:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T21:04:17","slug":"border-arrests-dropping-sharply-house-lawmaker-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-arrests-dropping-sharply-house-lawmaker-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Border apprehensions significantly declining, according to a member of the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fborder-arrests-dropping-sharply-house-lawmaker-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2219659&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The recent\u2063 decline in migrant\u2064 arrests at the southern border, revealed by Rep. Henry Cuellar during a House hearing, signals a significant drop to the \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-debunking-gun-control\/\" title=\"SHAPIRO: Debunking Gun Control\">lowest levels<\/a> of \u2062President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration. \u200cThe decrease to 79,800\u2064 arrests in three weeks indicates a potential monthly \u2062total of \u2062114,000 if trends persist, showing a positive impact on\u200b border\u200d control efforts. Rep. Henry Cuellar&#8217;s \u2062disclosure of a sharp decrease in migrant arrests at the southern border indicates\u2062 a \u200bnotable decline during President Joe \u200bBiden&#8217;s tenure. With 79,800 arrests in three weeks, there is potential for 114,000 monthly arrests if the trend continues, highlighting \u200bpositive \u2064outcomes for border control measures.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The number of migrants arrested at the southern border has plummeted in recent weeks to the lowest levels seen in President Joe Biden\u2019s three years in office, easing for the moment a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/border-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>crisis<\/a> that has touched every part of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/henry-cuellar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Henry Cuellar<\/a> (D-TX) divulged during a House Appropriations Committee hearing this week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/border-patrol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Border Patrol<\/a> agents stationed along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico boundary made an average of 3,800 arrests per day over the past three weeks, a figure divided across March and April.<\/p>\n<p>The number, 79,800 arrests in three weeks, would put Border Patrol on track to arrest 114,000 illegal immigrants in a month if that apprehension rate stays the same. The last time monthly arrests dipped that significantly was in February 2021, when 97,643 were recorded, and the 99,538 recorded in June 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re doing something right,\u201d Cuellar told Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in the Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/appropriations.house.gov\/legislation\/hearings\/budget-hearing-fiscal-year-2025-request-department-homeland-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>hearing<\/a>. \u201cI ask you to continue looking at what we need to do to bring those numbers down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Border Patrol agents saw an unusual reprieve in the number of migrants crossing from Mexico in March compared to the same month in previous years, a trend that bucks the springtime surge that follows pent-up demand from a winter slowdown in travel.<\/p>\n<p>Border authorities apprehended 137,484 migrants at the 2,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-prepare-major-border-bill-after-months-of-infighting\/\" title=\"House Republicans prepare major border bill after months of infighting\">000-mile southern border<\/a> in March, according to federal statistics shared with the <em>Washington Examiner.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>(U.S. Customs and Border Protection)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Illegal crossings at the southern border have fluctuated between 150,000 and 250,000 per month over the past 38 months.<\/p>\n<p>While the full extent of illegal immigration is unknown, the number of migrants who are caught is an indicator of the extent to which people outside the U.S. are attempting to enter.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Office on Latin America, an immigrant and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-why-disney-employees-are-walking-out-across-the-country\/\" title=\"Here\u2019s Why Disney Employees Are Walking Out Across the Country\">human rights advocacy group<\/a>, described the decline in recent weeks as \u201cvery unusual,\u201d according to an analysis issued Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcross the U.S.-Mexico border, migration continues a very unusual springtime lull, sinking below the January-March levels, which were already among the lowest monthly migrant encounter totals of the Biden administration,\u201d wrote Adam Isacson, WOLA\u2019s defense oversight director, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wola.org\/2024\/04\/weekly-u-s-mexico-border-update-trends-from-panama-to-u-s-executive-action-on-asylum-possible-dhs-hearings-in-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Isacson said part of the cause for the decline lies with the Mexican government and its decision to step up enforcement and deterrence operations as migrants enter southern Mexico and attempt to travel to northern Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMexico usually does not detain migrants for very long, and\u00a0deportations\u00a0have been infrequent this year,\u201d Isacson explained. \u201cInstead, security and migration forces have been placing apprehended migrants on buses and sending them further into the country\u2019s south or elsewhere into its interior, away from the U.S. border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas touted that the Biden administration had returned or removed 635,000 illegal immigrants over the past 11 months, though nearly all were turned away at the southern border. The border expulsions and removals may affect the number of migrants who attempt to enter, knowing they could be immediately sent back to Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migrant arrests at the southern border have sharply dropped to the lowest levels of President Joe Biden&#8217;s tenure. This decline temporarily alleviates the widespread crisis. Representative Henry Cuellar (D-TX) disclosed this development during a recent House Appropriations Committee session<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2655,"featured_media":2219660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24022104745272-1024x577.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24022104745272-1024x577.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}