As border crossings plummet, White House wants more money for apprehensions
Source: Scripps News
Posted 5:54 PM, Feb 19, 2025 and last updated 8:54 PM, Feb 19, 2025
As border crossings plummeted in January, the White House hopes to get more funding to carry of President Donald Trump’s biggest campaign promises. According to newly released CBP data there were 61,465 apprehensions along the southwest border in January, down from 96,035 in December.
President Trump’s ‘border czar’ highlighted the success at the border and the administration's “more than double the arrest of criminal gang members” in an interview with Scripps News, but said they need more funding to continue the effort.
“We're doing great work with the money we have, through efficient means and having the whole of government, but I'll be clear, we need money from Congress,” he said. “The more money we have, the more successful we'll be, the more detention beds we can buy, the more air flights we can buy, the more resources we can bring on to the teams. We got hard boards, relationships. Got hard ICE agents. So Congress needs to come through us.”
The decline at the southern border of migrant crossings began last year, after Mexico intensified efforts to stop migration through the country in December 2023 — and was followed last summer by President Joe Biden's June executive order which severely curtailed the ability for crossers to seek asylum.
Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/president-trumps-first-100-days/as-border-crossings-plummet-white-house-wants-more-money-for-apprehensions
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