🛂 Border & Immigration
🔥🔥🔥On fire
95%
drop in Southwest border apprehensions, FY2026
Lowest border crossings ever recorded
CBP says fiscal year 2026 (Oct. 2025 to Sept. 2026) had the fewest Southwest border apprehensions in U.S. history. Border Patrol apprehensions between ports of entry came in under 99,000, and nationwide encounters through August were about 379,000, 88% below FY2023's record.
Why it matters for the GOP
This is the promise kept that Republicans lead with. Monthly apprehensions have held around 9,000 to 12,000, and DHS says there have been zero Border Patrol releases for 17 straight months.
The pushback
The zero-release figure is the administration's own claim and hasn't been independently verified. Neither administration publishes "gotaway" numbers.