Border Patrol agents on the southern border saw an unusual reprieve in the number of migrants crossing from Mexico in March compared to prior years, a trend that bucks the springtime surge that follows pent-up demand from a winter slowdown in travel.
Border authorities apprehended 137,000 migrants at the 2,000-mile southern border in March, according to federal statistics obtained by CBS News. The figure was down slightly from 141,000 arrests in February, though still far above the average of 30,000 to 50,000 monthly arrests seen in the decade before President Joe Biden’s tenure.
The decrease in Border Patrol arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border in March marked one of two instances in more than two decades in which the number of arrests did not increase as the weather warmed up.
The only other year was in 2020
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