U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirms our reporting from last week, publishing official statistics today showing that migrant apprehensions along the southern border dropped to 137,000 in March (down from 141,000 in February).

Data:
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Migrant crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border remain surprisingly low. There were roughly 4,000 migrant apprehensions there yesterday, according to U.S. officials.

Over the past months, the Mexican government has staged an aggressive crackdown on U.S.-bound migrants:

Migrants are 'rather easily cutting concertina wire' set up by Texas, Secretary Mayorkas said.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday denounced Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's effort to fortify stretches of the southern border with razor and concertina wire as ineffective, saying migrants are 'easily cutting' the barriers. cbsn.ws/3J9mc72

Citing squalid conditions and instances of migrants relieving themselves in the outdoors, a judge has ordered U.S. Border Patrol agents to promptly relocate migrant children from makeshift encampments where they often wait hours or days to be processed.
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Defying historical trends, migrant crossings along the U.S. southern border dropped in March. U.S. officials tell me that’s mainly a result of an immigration crackdown in Mexico.
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Judge Dolly Gee 'said migrant children at these locations often don't receive adequate food, beyond crackers. Some of the sites have lacked a sufficient number of dumpsters and portable toilets, and the ones they do have are 'overflowing' and 'unusable''
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Migrant border crossings dip in March, with U.S. officials crediting crackdown by Mexican government by ⁦Camilo Montoya-Galvez⁩ w/comments by ⁦Ariel Ruiz⁩ ⁦MigrationPolicy Inst⁩
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It's time for a belated look at Mexican government migration enforcement data. As Camilo rightfully notes, the crackdown by Mexico has impacted encounters at the US-Mexico border. But data from January and February show the full scope of this crackdown, which has been massive