Down, Down, Down

That is what the number of undocumented migrants are doing, the numbers of people crossing the border is dropping since the new policies adopted by President Biden and this is what Trump is worried about.

Biden border restrictions bring sharp drop in illegal crossings

Homeland Security officials see a 40 percent drop in the three weeks since the new rules were announced.

The Washington Post

By Nick Miroff

June 26, 2024

The number of migrants crossing the U.S. southern border illegally has dropped more than 40 percent in the three weeks since President Biden announced broad restrictions on asylum claims, administration officials said Wednesday.

U.S. agents have taken fewer than 2,400 migrants into custody per day over the past week, down from more than 3,800 at the beginning of June, according to the latest Department of Homeland Security data. That is the lowest level of illegal crossings since Biden took office, DHS said.

The shift was evident Tuesday in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, which has been one of the border’s busiest migration corridors for the past decade. Along areas of the border where migrant families have crossed in large groups to surrender to U.S. authorities and seek protection, Border Patrol agents pursued a handful of adult men trying to evade capture. Agents’ radios were mostly quiet.

The Tucson area in the Arizona desert saw a similar decline in unlawful crossings, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said during a news conference in that border city Wednesday.

Newsweek writes this week that,

Migrant encounters in Texas on the U.S.-Mexico border are falling in a significant boost for the Biden-Harris administration.

The number of migrants encountered by Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley fell in July, continuing a monthly downward trend along the South Texas border this year, according to new data by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

CBP reports there were 5,040 migrant encounters by Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley sector in July, reflecting a 16% decrease from the 5,981 encounters in June.

Encounters in the Rio Grande Valley have dropped 58% since February, when there were 11,951 encounters.

I want to point out that the bipartisan bill that Trump squashed would have also reduced the numbers of undocumented migrants!

This is diplomacy does...

Panama starts returning migrants on US-funded flights

BBC News

By Vanessa Buschschlüter

August 20, 2024

Panama on Tuesday started repatriating undocumented migrants on flights financed by the United States.

The move comes less than two months after José Raúl Mulino was sworn in as Panama's president.

Mr Mulino campaigned on a promise to "close" the Darién Gap, the dangerous stretch of jungle which more than half a million migrants crossed last year on their way north from South America.

The Biden administration said it had agreed to pay for the flights as part of its efforts to deter irregular migration.

A group of 29 Colombians with criminal records were the first to be returned on Tuesday.

Under an agreement jointly signed by the Panamanian foreign minister and US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the US has committed to helping Panama with $6m (£4.6m) for equipment, transportation and logistics to "remove foreign nationals who do not have a legal basis to remain in Panama".

Diplomacy is something that Trump knows nothing about.