Number of apprehensions at the US-Mexico border declined for the 8th month in a row in January, but Acting CBP Commissioner Morgan says that in recent weeks the number of average daily apprehensions has risen.
Total apprehensions at the border were lower in January than in recent months, but during the month daily apprehensions began increasing . U.S.
"We continue to see positive results because of the steps taken by the Trump Administration to control the border and uphold the rule of law," said Morgan."We've seen eight straight months of decline, but as we see from the seizure of the longest-ever tunnel between the U.S. and Mexico and significant drug seizures, much work remains."
Migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have decreased, said Morgan. He hailed the administration's success in reducing numbers of apprehensions from these three countries, crediting security agreements with their governments. He noted that CBP has been promoting the message that if citizens from those countries come to the U.S.,"They will be promptly removed and returned.
Critics of the Trump administration's immigration policies have said such policies violate migrants' rights and further endanger them by making them wait in dangerous border towns or in one of the most violent countries in the world, which lacks a robust asylum system. Areleased earlier this month highlighted the potentially deadly risks to Salvadorans in particular — many of whom are fleeing gang violence — when they are sent to wait in Mexico or deported to El Salvador.
Morgan was also asked about the detention of Iranian Americans on the Northern border in Washington state after the U.S. killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in January. CBP denied there was any directive to agents in a tweet, but a memo surfaced weeks later showing the CBP Seattle Field Office had told much of the Northern border to conduct additional screenings of anyone with ties to Iran or Lebanon.
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