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Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) reported zero releases of illegal aliens along the US border with Mexico for the eighth consecutive month.
The figure of zero was for the month of December 2025.
In December 2024, by contrast, CBP released 7,041 illegals into the United States from the southern border.
CBP has “recorded its lowest encounter totals ever to start a fiscal year.”
The Epoch Times reports, “In Fiscal Year 2026, which started on Oct. 1, 2025, there were 21,815 apprehensions along the southwest border, the lowest ever in the first quarter of a fiscal year, the agency stated, noting that this was 95 percent lower than the first-quarter average under the Biden administration.
“As for illegal crossings, there were 30,698 total encounters nationwide in December 2025—92 percent lower than the monthly peak of the prior administration, which was 370,883. The recent figures are also the lowest encounters ever for a month of December.
“There were 6,478 Border Patrol apprehensions on the southwest border in December 2025, which the DHS stated was 96 percent lower than the monthly average during the Biden administration and fewer than four days’ worth of apprehensions in December 2024.”
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem praised President Trump for his leadership in securing the border.
“Thanks to President [Donald] Trump’s leadership and the dedication of DHS law enforcement, America’s borders are safer than any time in our nation’s history,” Noem said.
“What President Trump and our CBP agents and officers have been able to do in a single year is nothing short of extraordinary.”
President Trump signed an Executive Order to secure the southern border on his first day back in office.
“One of my most important obligations is to protect the American people from the disastrous effects of unlawful mass migration and resettlement,” Trump said in the “Securing Our Borders” directive.
As part of Trump’s effort to secure the southern border, thousands of troops have been stationed there, on federal land that has been reclassified into “national defense areas.” These parcels of land include the so-called “Roosevelt Reserve.”
Construction of President Trump’s border wall has also resumed.
