Apprehensions between ports of entry at the southwest border dropped 36 percent from December 2024 to January 2025.
The House Committee on Homeland Security released its latest "Border Brief" for January, reporting a significant decline in illegal immigration since President Donald Trump took office. Both the White House and Republicans are attributing the drop to what they refer to as the “Trump effect.”
According to the report, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recorded 81,792 encounters at borders nationwide in January, including 61,465 at the southern border. Apprehensions between ports of entry at the southern border dropped 36 percent from December 2024 to January 2025. "The Trump effect is in full swing," House Homeland GOP wrote on X.
The number of known “gotaways”—illegal immigrants who are detected but not apprehended—has also seen a dramatic reduction. The report states that daily known gotaways have fallen more than 90 percent since Trump took office, averaging just 132 per day in early February. Under the Biden administration, the fiscal year 2023 saw an average of 1,800 known gotaways daily.
The committee attributed this decline to several policy changes under the Trump administration, including the termination of the CBP One app for asylum seekers and the rollback of parole programs such as the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) parole program. Under Biden, CBP One and CHNV resulted in the release of 1.5 million “inadmissible aliens” into the country on parole.
The report also cited Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border, his designation of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and diplomatic efforts that led Mexico to deploy 10,000 soldiers at its northern border. Additionally, the administration has pushed countries such as Venezuela to accept the return of deported violent criminals.
On Tuesday, the White House, citing CBP data, announced that border apprehensions at the southern border are at their lowest levels since May 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic heavily restricted immigration.
“Now, under President Trump, illegal border crossings are at record lows as illegal aliens are promptly arrested and sent home,” the White House said in a statement.
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