The previously exceeded border of California with Mexico is now almost empty, just a few months after the Donald Trump elections, shows images.
Auxiliary employees started packing without seeing migrants after weeks, reports SF Gate.
“Saying that there has been a dramatic change would be an understatement,” said Jeffrey Stalnaker, acting main patrouille agent of the San Diego sector.
Not long ago, the piece along South California had to deal with a record number transition.
December 2024, a record saw 301,981 people caught illegally crossing the border.
The number of migrants caught the illegal crossing remained much more than 200,000 per month for a large part of the time of Biden in function. He insisted that there was nothing he could do.
But during the first month in Trump's office, the number of illegal migrants dived to only 11,709 people, so that the claims of Biden made an incentive that his hands were bound.
The decision of former President Biden to reverse a policy of the Pandemic era that asylum seekers denied them and immediately deported them back to Mexico was largely the fault for the peak.
President Trump promised to tackle the border crisis if they are chosen and has since taken various measures that have seen daily arrests fall from their peak of 1,200 to just 30.
Among them was the use of 750 American troops to strengthen six miles off the border wall with Concertina wire.
Adriana Jasso, a human rights lawyer who works for the American Friends Service Committee, said the last time she saw migrants in the infamous 'Whiskey 8' area near San Diego was February 15.
The previously hectic border of California with Mexico is now almost empty, just a few months after the election of Donald Trump. The image above shows a part of the wall that separates San Diego and Mexico on March 21
Another shot of October 2023 showed that migrants stand in line to be processed at the border, for which former President Biden provided a historical crisis that was blamed for ruining the Kamala Harris election loop
A huge concertina metal fence was built along the southern border as a deterrent that seems to work
Previously Whiskey 8 was full of migrants who had scaled the fence from Mexico and waited along the piece for processing by CBP.
Jasso and her colleagues are used to handing out water, food and help to the migrants, but nowadays there are fewer calls for their services.
After a storm had destroyed a single canopy shelter where Jasso and her team were located, they decided to dismantle the entire operation.
Sam Schultz, a resident of Jacumba, a retired care provider, felt compelled to support humanitarian efforts on the border.
But lately, water bottles that he releases for migrants are untouched.
His son recently traveled to Highway 80 to collect unused tents.
Stalnaker told SF Gate that the addition of Concertina Wire has drastically reduced the number of illegal entries, so that arrests have fallen by 70 percent this financial year compared to the latter.
He added that federal prosecutors in San Diego are dealing with more than 1,000 border -related criminal cases so far this financial year.
Not long ago, the piece along South California had to deal with a record number transitions
The president promised to tackle the border crisis as part of his campaign platform
A customs and border patrol image that shows how migrant interceptions rose to 301,000 a month during the term of Biden. During the first month at the Trump office, only 11,000 migrants were caught crossing the border
Mexico also steps up his border efforts after the president threatened to impusly impusse paralyzing rates.
Mexican officials promised to send 10,000 National Guard troops to the north who now meet American agents a few times a week, according to Stalnaker.
Almost immediately when taking office, Trump canceled appointments for those who were in Tijuana pending meetings with customs and border protection and also removed a telephone app that has planned them.
Illegal border crossings on the southern border have been the lowest levels since 2000 last month.
But experts warned that without legal ways to claim asylum, migrants are more likely to run an increased risk of entering the US.
Earlier this month, three people died in the Otay Mountains due to hard terrain and cold weather after he tried to cross the border near San Diego.
The two men and a woman were found by BP agents after they brought an emergency call.
