https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/11/09/whats-happening-at-the-u-s-mexico-border-in-7-charts/
The Border Patrol reported 1,659,206 encounters with migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border last fiscal year, narrowly exceeding the prior highs of 1,643,679 in 2000 and 1,615,844 in 1986. The large number of encounters in fiscal 2021 dwarfed the total during the last major wave of migration at the southwest border, which occurred in fiscal 2019.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/15/migrant-encounters-at-the-us-mexico-border-hit-a-record-high-at-the-end-of-2023/
The U.S. Border Patrol had nearly 250,000 encounters with migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico in December 2023, according to government statistics. That was the highest monthly total on record, easily eclipsing the previous peak of about 224,000 encounters in May 2022. The monthly number of encounters has soared since 2020

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/05/joe-biden/us-mexico-border-crossings-are-down-as-joe-biden-s/
The White House pointed to the latest publicly available data from the U.S. Border Patrol showing immigration officials encountered people illegally crossing the border about 128,900 times in

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-crossings-mexico-biden-18ac91ef502e0c5433f74de6cc629b32
WASHINGTON (AP) — Arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico reached an all-time high in December since monthly numbers have been released, authorities said Friday, exposing a growing vulnerability for President Joe Biden in his campaign for a second term.. The Border Patrol tallied 249,785 arrests on the Mexican border in December, up 31% from 191,112 in November and up 13% from

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-security-migrants-homeland-security-1c6e9f612dff721191c0254f980947a5
Tucson, Arizona, was again the busiest sector for illegal crossings with 50,565 arrests, down 37% from December, followed by San Diego. Arrests in the Border Patrol's Del Rio sector, which includes the city of Eagle Pass, the main focus of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's border enforcement efforts, plummeted 76% from December to 16,712, the lowest since December 2021.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/29/us/illegal-border-crossings-data.html
For the second year in a row, the number of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border surpassed two million, ... Since then, the number of illegal border crossings has increased every month, and

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-sees-drop-illegal-border-crossings-mexico-increases-enforcement-rcna132704
Arrests for illegal crossings into the U.S. from Mexico fell to about 2,500 on Monday, down from more than 10,000 on several days in December, according to U.S. authorities. In the Border Patrol

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-immigration-enforcement-crossings-drop-b67022cf0853dca95a8e0799bb99b68a
A guardsman stands watch at the U.S.-Mexico border, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. According to U.S. officials, a Mexican enforcement surge, including forcing migrants off of freight trains and flying and busing migrants to the southern part of country, has contributed to a sharp drop in illegal entries to the U.S. in recent weeks.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/26/border-crossings-drop-biden-policy-00165055
The number of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has plummeted 40 percent since President Joe Biden clamped down on asylum earlier this month, administration officials said

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/06/26/border-crossings-drop-biden-closures/
McALLEN, Tex. — The number of migrants crossing the U.S. southern border illegally has dropped more than 40 percent in the three weeks since President Biden announced broad restrictions on

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/29/us/us-mexico-border-migration/index.html
A new surge of migrants at the US-Mexico border is overwhelming already-stretched resources and prompting urgent talks with Mexican officials as December border crossings reached a record monthly

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/24/g-s1-5716/migrants-asylum-jacumba-border-patrol
A U.S. Border Patrol agent inspects a grup of dozens of migrants waiting to be processed after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on June 18, 2024 in Jacumba Hot Springs, San Diego, California.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-us-mexico-border-crossings-mayorkas-may-2024/
Mayorkas discusses dramatic decrease in illegal border crossings 05:49. El Paso, Texas — Illegal crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border in May are down by more than 50% compared to the record

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-warns-against-crossing-mexico-border-illegally-title-42-ends-2023-05-15/
The number of migrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally dropped to an average of 5,000 per day since Title 42 ended, down from daily highs of more than 10,000 last week, Nunez-Neto

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/oct/03/alex-mooney/fact-checking-current-scale-us-mexico-border-cross/
Our ruling. Mooney said, "There have now been 16 straight months of OVER 150,000 illegal border crossings." CBP data shows that immigrant encounters with the Border Patrol have exceeded 150,000

https://apnews.com/article/border-arrests-biden-asylum-mexico-immigration-6e302f06f567b96d88cc1333aa6d10fe
TUCSON, Arizona (AP) — Arrests for illegal border crossings have dropped more than 40% during the three weeks that asylum processing has been suspended, the Homeland Security Department said Wednesday.. The announcement comes just one day before President Joe Biden is set to debate former President and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in what is expected to be a

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69016671
Migrant detentions at the US-Mexico border have fallen dramatically in recent months, as a Mexican crackdown stops tens of thousands getting anywhere near a crossing point. Experts however believe

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-migrants-fastest-growing-group-us-mexico-border-60-minutes-transcript/
Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 37,000 Chinese citizens were apprehended crossing illegally from Mexico into the U.S.…that's 50 times more than two years earlier.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-restricts-asylum-access-mexico-border-title-42-ends-2023-05-10/
More than 10,000 migrants were caught crossing at the U.S.-Mexico border illegally each day on Monday and Tuesday, said Brandon Judd, president of a union for Border Patrol agents. The total

https://www.voanews.com/a/illegal-border-crossings-to-us-from-mexico-hit-annual-high/6801235.html
FILE - A migrant waits of the Mexican side of the border after United States Customs and Border Protection officers detained a couple of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on the beach, in

https://apnews.com/article/biden-border-crossings-immigration-asylum-bb54c40fa51931df02ceaca055c7797d
FILE - Guardsmen watch as migrants try to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico into the U.S. near in Eagle Pass, Texas on July 11, 2023. U.S. authorities released numbers of illegal border crossings in July, the second month after pandemic-related asylum restrictions were replaced with new rules limiting access for people seeking humanitarian protections.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/22/970074431/illegal-border-crossings-rise-as-some-people-try-multiple-times
Attempted migrant crossings on the U.S.-Mexico borders are rising but a close look at the cases shows that it's largely due to single Mexican men who are attempting to cross numerous times.

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/28/trump-biden-debate-immigration-border-control
Why it matters: Historic levels of migration at the U.S.-Mexico border have become one of the top issues this election cycle. Trump has made a border crackdown a focus of all three of his presidential campaigns, while the issue has been one of Biden's biggest vulnerabilities with back-to-back record years of illegal border crossings on his watch.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/illegal-border-crossings-drop-to-third-lowest-level-under-biden-in-may/ar-BB1oBAo6
The Biden administration received welcome news in May as the number of immigrants arrested entering the United States illegally from Mexico dropped to the third-lowest level in 40 months. U.S

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/us-citizens/cbp-reqs-mexico
Warning: it's Illegal to Carry Firearms or Ammo into Mexico. For border crossing information, tune into the port of entry's Loop Radio on 1620 AM. Report drug and alien smuggling. Call (956) 542-5811 in the U.S., 001800-0105237 from Mexico. Prohibited/Permissible Items. All articles acquired in Mexico must be declared.

https://apnews.com/article/border-immigration-biden-mexico-a0b8f4730521d90fd5ea305e2f2cbc5e
U.S. and Mexican officials have agreed on new immigration policies meant to deter illegal border crossings. The officials are opening up other pathways ahead of an expected increase in migrants following the end of coronavirus pandemic restrictions. A U.S. homeland security adviser spent Tuesday meeting with Mexico's president and other top officials, emerging with a five-point plan. The U.S

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH_Z5BEZ5ts
Every year, thousands of Mexicans illegally cross the US border. To find out exactly how it's done we went to El Alberto, Mexico to film the experience.El Al

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-drop-texas-mexico-8ae7910cda7e113b2fd57ae8d854f746
FILE - Migrants wait to be processed by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, Oct. 19, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. A recent decline in arrests for illegal crossings on the U.S. border with Mexico may prove only temporary. The drop in January reflects how numbers ebb and flow, and

https://apnews.com/article/biden-mexico-us-customs-and-border-protection-cuba-immigration-8fbba5bde9afca3f404eaa96bcfd136a
FILE - Migrants wait along a border wall Aug. 23, 2022, after crossing from Mexico near Yuma, Ariz. A surge in migration from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua in September brought the number of illegal crossings to the highest level ever recorded in a fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)