Troops deployed along the U.S.-Mexico border are part of President Trump's plan to further increase U.S. military presence at ...

A border agent looks for illegal migrants. Anadolu via Getty Images In May 2024, under former President Joe Biden, more than 117,000 migrants were caught crossing the southern border illegally ...

DHS said that “from March 2024 to March 2025 fentanyl traffic at the southern border fell by 54%.” “The world has heard the message loud and clear,” said DHS.

Last month, Border Patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border recorded just over 6,000 apprehensions of migrants who entered the country without authorization, the lowest monthly tally ever ...

There are now 6,800 soldiers working alongside 17,000 Border Patrol agents at the southern border. In the El Paso Sector, the soldiers staff half a dozen Stryker vehicles, whose high-tech optics ...

U.S. Border Patrol reported about 8,400 migrant encounters at the southern border in April, down from nearly 129,000 encounters during the same month a year ago.

U.S. soldiers conduct a dismounted patrol along the southern border outside of Sierra Blanca, Texas, March 31, 2025. (Pfc. Malik Waddy-Fiffee/Army) The Defense Department has approved 1,115 more ...

The border was more secure, and it essentially happened overnight, when President Trump took the oath of office in the U.S. Capitol on January 20.

President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s administration largely struggled with the southern border, with monthly arrests peaking in December 2023 at nearly 250,000.

Six months after President Trump declared a state of emergency in the southern border, apprehensions are low, but military ...