Border Patrol made 124,220 immigrant arrests during January. This is a decrease of 50% from the 249,735 that were made in the last month of 2023.
December is the month with the highest number of irregular crossings since records have been kept. The border has become the issue that most worries Republican voters ahead of the presidential elections in November. Mexican agents have tightened surveillance at major airports and on trains and buses in states near the borders with Guatemala and Belize. The Government of Panama has informed the Democratic Administration that 36,000 people traveled through the dangerous Darien jungle in January.