According to figures from the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), 8,336 Mexicans were arrested last month on the shared border.
So far this fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 to March 2025), which includes the final stretch of the management of Joe Biden and the first months of Trump’s government, total 380,721 “meetings” on the southern border of the US.
Of that total, 128,093 (33%) people are of Mexican origin. In the effort of the nationals for crossing the border, experts attribute it to factors such as the need to “flee” from the country due to insecurity.
Meanwhile, the CBP attributes the lowest number of border crossings to the “border operational control” and control measures with the support of the Department of Defense and the “drastic” increase in patrols.
In a report, the US office ensures that foreigners are receiving the administration’s message: “If they cross the border illegally, they will be deported.”
“The arrests of the US border patrol on the southwest border throughout the month of March 2025 were lower than in (…) 2024,” said Pete Flores, an interim commissioner of the CBP.
“This demonstrates the tireless dedication and vigilant service of the men and women of the US Customs and Border Protection, who work daily to maintain the security of our country,” he added.
For Eunice Rendón, a migration expert and director of the migrant agenda, the CBP figures show that, for five years, Mexicans are the citizens who try to enter irregularly to the United States.
“Mexico continues to have many people who try to reach the United States, although many are afraid right now with Trump’s speech, because we continue to lead this list since 2020. Mexico was not on the list of the main three countries to arrive in the United States for a decade. He returned,” he explains.
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Until before 2020, the Central American countries led the list of migrants “meetings. However, the trend changed in the last five years, in the middle of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Of migrants arrested in March, 12% is originally from Central American countries such as Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Rendón believes that insecurity is one of the reasons why Mexicans displaced Central Americans in cross -bodily attempts by US authorities.
“In 2020, Mexico re -enters this list and stays as the first (place) of migrants who want to reach the United States. That has to do with violence, rather than with the economic part or with the combination of both factors. Complete families fleeing places such as Michoacán, Tierra Caliente, Guerrero,” he says.
