Southern border apprehensions drop 93% from April 2024: CBP

Southern border apprehensions dropped 93% in April compared to April 2024, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Border Patrol made 8,383 apprehensions along the southwest border last month, which is a 93% drop from the 128,895 apprehensions recorded in April 2024, per CBP’s report released Monday.

The number of apprehensions averages to 279 apprehensions per day, down from 4,297 per day a year prior. There were also only five illegal immigrants temporarily released into the U.S. in April for court cases, compared to 68,000 released along the southern border in April 2024.

“For the first time in years, more agents are back in the field—patrolling territories that CBP didn’t have the bandwidth or manpower to oversee just six months ago,” Acting Commissioner of CBP Pete Flores said in a statement on Monday. “But thanks to this administration’s dramatic shift in security posture at our border, we are now seeing operational control becoming a reality—and it’s only just beginning.”

Across the country last month, drug seizures increased by 15% from March, which included 758 pounds of fentanyl.