SW Border Monthly Arrests Lowest in a Generation

On Monday, CBP released its latest statistics. According to those stats, Border Patrol’s Southwest border apprehensions fell to fewer than 7,200 in March — a 14 percent decline compared to February’s already historically low total, and tellingly a 95 percent drop compared to March 2024. Not coincidentally, the Washington Times reported on April 8 that the backlog in pending immigration court cases declined for the first time since FY 2008. As a district court judge predicted in a case that was a short-term victory for the Biden administration in November 2023, “The immigration system ... dysfunctional and flawed as it is, would work if properly implemented” — and for the first time in a long time, it is.