The year ended with the lowest number of migrant encounters along the U.S.-Mexico border in a long time, with San Diego no longer the busiest crossing route in December as traffic spiked in Texas, according to the latest data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
It’s an outcome that the Biden administration on Friday took one last opportunity to tout — days before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House and is expected to issue orders cracking down on the border.
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In December, the number of migrant encounters between ports of entry along the Southwest border dropped to about 47,300 — the lowest level since August 2020, said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a press call Friday.
Mayorkas said the decline has been a “consistent trend” since Biden’s executive order to restrict asylum eligibility for those who cross the border illegally went into effect in June.
The number of migrant encounters within the U.S. Border Patrol’s San Diego sector dropped 60% from June to December, and 72% from April, when the sector was the busiest along the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time last year.
Last month, the Rio Grande Valley sector took over as the busiest crossing corridor — just barely — with 10,128 encounters, 11 more than San Diego.
Overall, the Tucson sector logged the most Border Patrol apprehensions in calendar 2024, with some 290,000, according to an analysis of CBP data. San Diego ranked second, with more than 263,000.
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