Border encounters down 94% in Trump's first two months

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — According to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP), border agents has 11,709 "encounters" in February and 11,017 in March. Encounters refers to the amount of people not lawfully in the country that USCBP apprehended or those who have turned themselves into a port of entry and are deemed "inadmissible."From October 2021 to December 2024, the Biden administration had 186,825 encounters per month, 94% more than the 11,363 average in Trump's first two months b