Preliminary Border Patrol data shows US-Mexico border apprehensions continue to decline

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Preliminary Border Patrol data shows US-Mexico border apprehensions continue to decline


By Geneva Sands, CNN

Updated 6:33 PM ET, Fri January 3, 2020


(CNN)Arrests of migrants illegally crossing the US-Mexico border dropped in December, the seventh month of decline in a row.

In December, US Border Patrol apprehended around 32,800 people on the southwest border, according to preliminary Border Patrol data obtained by CNN, down from 33,510 in November.

In mid-December, acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan, who oversees Border Patrol, warned that border apprehensions were "still at crisis levels." He said that the average apprehensions were a little over 1,400 daily at the time. Apprehensions are used as a measure of illegal crossings and overall migration trends.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/03/politics/us-mexico-border-apprehensions-continue-decline/index.html

[PeteS in CA]

I remember last summer that MSM-types were pooh-poohing then-current declines in apprehensions as due to the hot summer weather reducing the number of people trying to enter. Not implausible, but as the continued declines show, incorrect.