In fiscal year 2024, with Joe Biden in the Presidency of the US, there were 5,683 meetings with migrants per day, and a year earlier, in 2023, they were 5.076.
Tom Homan, the Tsar of the Border in the US, has also highlighted the decline in the “meetings” with migrants on the border with Mexico.
“In the last 24 hours, the US border patrol has encountered a total of 229 foreigners throughout the southwest border. That is less than the maximum of more than 11,000 a day that Biden registered. I started as a border patrol agent in 1984 and I don’t remember that the figures were so low. President Trump promised a safe border and is fulfilling, ”he said on his social networks on January 17.
In The Last 24 Hours The Us Border Patrol Has Encountered A Total of 229 Aliens Across The Entire Southwest Border. That is download from a high of over 11,000 to 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
The CBP reported this week that it is applying an “approach” that involves the entire government and includes the support of the Department of Defense, to protect its borders and make the United States become a safe place.
The message is clear: do not make the trip or you will be arrested and expelled ”
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… And Mexico sports more than 14,000
The Trump administration has deported more than 14,000 migrants to Mexico, of which 78 percent are Mexican.
“They are, since January 20, 14,400 people, 470 people who have returned, as they can account for, 11 thousand 379 Mexicans and Mexicans and 3 thousand 91 foreigners,” President Claudia Sheinbaum revealed on Monday.
“And in the case of region (of refugee aid), of the people who arrived in Mexico from other nationalities who are asking for asylum we are doing a review with a region. I hope that next week we can inform them,” he added.
As part of the measures to address what Trump calls mass deportations, the federal government asked the United States to diversify flights with deported migrants, so that not everyone arrives at the border states of the north of the country, or to the AIFA, in a state of Mexico.
“To guarantee an orderly, decent and agile return of repatriated, the Government of Mexico, through the INM, proposed to the US authorities diversify repatriation flights to different parts of the country,” the National Institute of Migration (INM) reported during the reception of 130 repatriated citizens who arrived in Tabasco via air.
During the six-year period of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024) the number of foreign migrants arrested and presented before the INM, with respect to the two previous six years.
In the last administration there were 2 million 720,412 migrants presented before the immigration authority. The figure is 230% higher than that registered in the six -year period of Enrique Peña Nieto, which added 823,095, and 434% higher than that of the six -year term of Felipe Calderón, which accumulated 509,402.
To date it is not possible to know how many migrants have been arrested so that the sexennium of President Claudia Sheinbaum, since the federal government has not updated the figures for six months. The latest available data dates from August 2024.
