Fewer illegals are crossing the border

 Daily Signal:

EL PASO, Texas—The streets around Sacred Heart Church were quiet, apart from a funeral procession exiting the building around 11 a.m. on Aug. 26. The lines of illegal aliens, sleeping mats on the sidewalk, and rows of porta-potties were gone.

Sacred Heart Church, just a short walk from the border of Mexico in El Paso, operated a migrant shelter during the Biden administration. The shelter had capacity to serve about 120 illegal aliens every night, but closed in September of 2024 due to a decline in illegal crossings at the border into the El Paso Sector, which includes the two westernmost counties in Texas—Hudspeth and El Paso—and all of New Mexico.

In May 2023, the first time The Daily Signal traveled to El Paso, more than 26,000 illegal aliens arrived in the El Paso Sector, averaging nearly 1,000 a day, which was a nine-month low.

In 2023, illegal aliens were crossing the Rio Grande daily before being processed by Border Patrol and released onto the streets of downtown El Paso, turning the city streets into something like a quasi-homeless shelter.

In July, just six months into the second Trump administration, Customs and Border Protection encountered about 35 illegal aliens a day in the El Paso Sector, according to CBP. And unlike under the Biden administration, no illegal aliens are being released onto the city streets.

The El Paso Sector is one of nine sectors along the southern border, all of which have seen a dramatic decline in the number of illegal aliens arriving at the southern border.

More than 10 million illegal aliens are thought to have entered the U.S. during the Biden administration. So far in fiscal year 2025, fewer than half a million illegal aliens have arrived at the southern border, and for several months now, the Trump administration has not paroled a single illegal alien into the U.S.
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The Border Patrol chief noted that an average of about nine illegal aliens are still managing to evade apprehension every day in the El Paso Sector.
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I grew up on the border in the Rio Grande Valley in the 60s, and this may even be fewer crossings than we were seeing then.  It just shows what effective management of the border can accomplish.

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