Border patrol encounters hit historic lows under Trump with zero releases for two months, compared to Biden’s administration which released thousands of inadmissible aliens monthly
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“AllQuietontheWesternFront”isthetitleofErichMariaRemarque’smovingWorldWarInovel.AsofJuly2025,it’sallquietontheU.S.southernborder.Howquiet?
InJune,theBorderPatrolencounteredjustover6,000inadmissiblealiensatportsofentry.UnderPresidentJoeBiden,theysometimessaw twicethatmany inasingleday.ThetotalnumberofinadmissiblealiensencounteredinJune,atbothournorthernandsouthernborders,atorbetweenportsofentry,was 25,243 –thelowestmonthlytotalinU.S.history.
AndofallthoseencounteredinJune,theDepartmentofHomelandSecurity(DHS)releasedzero –forthesecondmonthinarow.InMay,DHSalso released notasinglealientheystoppedtryingtoentertheUnitedStatesillegally.InMay2024,incontrast,theyreleasedatleast62,000–notcountingmorethan30,000inadmissiblealienstheyletineverymonthusingimmigrationparole,andthousandsmore“go
