Illegal Crossings In 2024. Migrants from venezuela, nigeria, haïti and other countries arrive at the roxham road border crossing in roxham, quebec, on march 2, 2023. There were 56,408 encounters at the southwest border, stretching along california, arizona, new mexico and texas, last month, the lowest number since the height of the pandemic in september 2020.
People who crossed the border illegally were arrested, hundreds of sandbags were destroyed, and wooden logs were dismantled. The changes, first reported by cbs news and confirmed to npr by the department of homeland security, follow actions the biden administration took to curtail illegal.