New Mexico illegal entries drop by 80% in one year, 95% in three years
Story by Bethany Blankley • 4h
(The Center Square) – Apprehensions of illegal border crossers dropped by 95% in New Mexico under the Trump administration from their record high during the Biden administration. At the same time, arrests of foreign terrorist organization members and prosecutions of border crimes skyrocketed in New Mexico.
Apprehensions of illegal border crossers this year represent a fraction of the gotaways who illegally entered during the Biden administration, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data and gotaway data obtained by The Center Square.
In fiscal year 2025, 36,116 illegal border crossers were apprehended in New Mexico, excluding gotaways. The fiscal year goes from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.
That’s down from 121,518 reported in fiscal 2024, 170,852 in fiscal 2023 and 143,857 in fiscal 2022, according to CBP data. Each year broke records but 2023 was the highest reported in New Mexico in U.S. history.
This year’s total represents an 80% drop from the record high of 2023.
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