Border Patrol officials are reporting a significant drop in encounters with illegal immigrants in the days after President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
Several sources from the Department of Homeland Security shared data with Fox News indicating that encounters at the southern border in the first three days of Trump’s presidency are 35 percent lower than those for the final three days of the Biden administration.
There were 1,288 nationwide encounters on Jan. 17. That was followed by 1,266 on Jan. 18 and 1,354 on Jan. 19, a sum of 3,908 encounters.
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But on Jan. 20, the day on which Trump took office at noon, there were 1,073 encounters.
The decline continued into Jan. 21, with 736, and it fell to 714 on
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