The Trump administration fulfilled its commitment to fortify the U.S.-Mexico border, achieving unprecedented lows in migrant encounters. The June Southwest Land Border Encounters Report from U.S. Customs and Border Protection indicates another drop in migrant interactions, including the lowest daily count of encounters at 128 on June 28.
CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott stated, “From curtailing illegal crossings to confiscating fentanyl and imposing billions in tariffs, CBP is achieving results on all levels. This administration is defending the nation with unwavering dedication, as evidenced by the numbers.”
Southwest Land Border Encounters Report — June 2025 (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
In June, Border Patrol agents detained 8,024 migrants who unlawfully crossed the border between official entry points. “A new historic low,” officials stated. The capture of 6,072 unauthorized migrants crossing the southwest border between ports of entry in June marks a 15 percent reduction from the prior record set in March.
The Trump administration also set the record for the lowest number of migrants illegally crossing the border in a single day on June 28, when 136 migrants were apprehended. This compares to the Biden-era single-day record of more than 13,000 migrants.
For the second month in a row, not a single migrant who was apprehended after illegally crossing the border was admitted into the United States. During the Biden era of “catch and release,” between 50-70 percent of migrants who were encountered at the border were released into the U.S. Frequently, this resulted in thousands of illegal aliens being dumped into American cities on a daily basis without adequate time for screening.
The 6,072 arrests in June represent a decrease of nearly 93 percent from the previous year. The record-low number of migrants apprehended in June was 97 percent lower than the 222,018 apprehensions in December 2022, the peak of the Biden Border Crisis. That single month is greater than the first five full months of the Trump administration (38,704).
The El Paso Sector encountered 1,630 migrants in June. This was the busiest sector along the southwest border with Mexico. The Rio Grande Valley (981), Tucson (968), San Diego (895), and Del Rio Sectors (652) rounded out the top five.
During Fiscal Year 25, which began on October 1, 2024, agents apprehended 218,263 migrants along the southwest border. This is down 84 percent from the same period in FY24 when more than 1.3 million migrants were apprehended. In FY22, the Biden administration encountered more than 2.2 million migrants along the southwest border.
Border Encounters Demographics (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
More than 65 percent of the migrants encountered along the southwest border were single adults. Family units (FMUA) accounted for approximately 24 percent of the total and the remaining 11 percent were unaccompanied alien children (UAC).
Bob Price is the – Texas-Border team’s associate editor and senior news contributor. He is an original member of the – Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday morning talk show. He is a U.S. Air Force veteran and serves as president of Blue Wonder Gun Care Products.
