By Robert Moore, El Paso Matters Border Patrol encounters with undocumented immigrants in the El Paso area declined by 89% in fiscal year 2025 from the historic highs seen two years earlier, according to new data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “The numbers tell the story – enforcement works,” CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott said in a statement released Friday. “We are delivering the most secure border in American history, thanks to the president’s leadership. Border crossings remain historically low, and those who do cross are being apprehended, detained, prosecuted, and swiftly removed.”

Across the Mexican and Canadian borders, encounters with undocumented immigrants in fiscal year 2025 – which ran from October 2024 to September 2025 – declined by 93% from the peak year of 2023 d

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