Border arrests in September fall to lowest level since 2020, DHS says

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says the deportation of migrants from the United States has tripled since June.

Luis Miranda, a DHS spokesman, reported that since May 2022, 740,000 people have been returned to their home countries, mostly Mexico.

"The majority of deportations are people from Mexico; it's one of the countries where most of the migrants come from," Miranda said.

According to Mexico's Secretary of the Interior, 136,439 Mexican nationals were deported between January and August of this year, including 19,433 minors.

Of those deportations, almost 32,000 migrants were returned to Mexico via the state of Baja California, primarily the city of Tijuana.

But most of the people sent south of the border arrived in the Mexican border states of Tamaulipas and Sonora.

Miranda said since June, when President Biden issued restrictions on asylum, unlawful border crossings are down 54%.

"According to numbers that we have, less than 54,000 unlawful crossings took place during the month of September, it's the lowest figure since 2020."

The president's executive order has also made it easier to deport people, according to Miranda.

"We've been able to triple the percentage of people who are going through expedited processing each month," said Miranda. "We have sent back migrants to 180 countries using repatriation flights as far away as Africa, Europe and Asia."

According to CBP data, the number of migrant encounters at U.S. ports of entry along the Southwest border have hovered around 50,000 a month since June of 2023. Under the