The Trump administration may finally be able to celebrate a win on immigration: border crossings fell by nearly half in August after the White House inked a deal with Mexican officials that improved that country’s interdiction of so-called “migrant caravans” before they reach the United States’ southern border.
Politico reports that only 51,000 arrests were made at the southern border in August, “down more than 60 percent since a peak in May,” when border arrests jumped over 100,000. Of course, 50,000-plus arrests is by no means a small number, and it’s still clear that there’s much work to be done to curb a sharp jump in illegal immigration that’s taken place over the last year, but the decline is significant.
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