DHS touts 10 straight months of zero illegal aliens released at border as crossings plunge

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Thursday that Border Patrol agents person not released a azygous migrant into the U.S. interior for 10 consecutive months, pointing to what officials described arsenic historically debased levels of amerciable crossings.

The DHS said successful a property merchandise that information from February shows U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recorded its tenth consecutive period with zero migrant releases astatine the border, arsenic the bureau credited an "enforcement-first" attack for the sustained drop.

"Ten consecutive months of ZERO amerciable aliens released astatine the border. President Donald Trump promised to unafraid the Border, and that is simply a committedness we delivered," erstwhile DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said successful a statement. "We person the astir unafraid borderline successful American history. Our borders are CLOSED to lawbreakers."

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The Trump medication is restoring an immigration argumentation to behaviour vicinity investigations related to aliens applying for U.S. naturalization. (Getty Images)

CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott said the inclination reflects a broader diminution successful crossings, adding that Border Patrol has not released immoderate migrants into the state during that period.

"February marks the tenth consecutive period that U.S. Border Patrol has not released a azygous amerciable alien into the interior of the United States — a wide reflection of the enforcement-first posture restoring integrity to our nation’s borders," Scott said.

According to CBP data, agents recorded 26,963 encounters nationwide successful February, down 22% from the erstwhile period and 88% beneath the monthly mean during erstwhile President Joe Biden’s administration.

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A U.S. Army Stryker armored conveyance guards the U.S.-Mexico borderline arsenic portion of the Trump administration's crackdown connected migration and pursuing the constitution of a 260-mile subject portion on the U.S. confederate borderline successful New Mexico and Texas, successful El Paso Texas, arsenic seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico July 7, 2025.  (REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez)

At the southwest border, agents made 6,603 apprehensions successful February, a fig the bureau said is 92% little than the monthly mean implicit the past 3 decades and 97% beneath the highest of the Biden medication successful December 2023.

Officials besides pointed to a crisp diminution successful regular crossings, with Border Patrol averaging 236 apprehensions per time successful February — a 95% driblet compared to the erstwhile administration.

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Venezuelan migrant Louis Sanchez asks Texas National Guard troops to fto his household walk done razor ligament aft they crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico connected September 27, 2023 successful Eagle Pass, Texas, nether the Biden administration. (John Moore/Getty Images)

At the aforesaid time, CBP reported a surge successful cause seizures, with agents confiscating much than 79,000 pounds of narcotics nationwide past month, the highest monthly full since October 2021.

The bureau said fentanyl seizures accrued 67% from January, portion marijuana, methamphetamine and cocaine seizures besides roseate significantly.

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Scott said the bureau remains focused connected enforcement and nationalist security.

"While threats to our nationalist and economical information proceed to evolve, truthful does our resoluteness to conscionable them, arsenic we transportation retired our ngo of protecting the homeland portion facilitating lawful question and trade," helium said.