According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, southern border apprehensions fell by 93% in April compared to the same month in 2024, a report said on Tuesday. Border Patrol made 8,383 apprehensions along the southwest border last month, a significant decrease from the 128,895 apprehensions recorded in April 2024, according to CBP’s report released Monday.
This translates to an average of 279 apprehensions per day, down from 4,297 per day a year earlier. Additionally, only five illegal immigrants were temporarily released into the U.S. for court cases in April, a stark contrast to the 68,000 released along the southern border in April 2024, Just the News noted.
“For the first time in years, more agents are back in the field—patrolling territories that CBP didn’t have the bandwidth or manpower to oversee just six months ago,” Acting Commissioner of CBP Pete Flores said in a statement on Monday. “But thanks to this administration’s dramatic shift in security posture at our border, we are now seeing operational control becoming a reality—and it’s only just beginning.”
Meanwhile, a U.S. appeals court will review the Trump administration’s effort to block the return of a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum seeker who was deported to El Salvador earlier this year, allowing Salvadoran authorities to keep him in custody for now. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed last week to hear the administration’s appeal, issuing a stay through May 15 on a lower court order that had required the government to bring the asylum seeker back to U.S. soil immediately.
The court also directed the plaintiffs to file their response by noon on Monday, while the Trump administration has until 9 a.m. Tuesday to reply. At the center of the case is Daniel Lozano-Camargo, a 20-year-old Venezuelan national previously identified in court filings as “Cristian,” who was deported to El Salvador in March as part of the Trump administration’s initial round of removals under the Alien Enemies Act.