claim: "illegal crossings at our southern border have been cut by over 40 percent."
author: mike pence
evidence_1: oct 12, 2017 ... mr. trump has a point: border crossings have gone down more ... that 40  percent monthly drop is unprecedented, but it is a slight stretch. ... already cut  illegal immigration at the southern border by 61 percent. ... border apprehensions , which tend to vary seasonally, declined by more than 1 percent over six ...
evidence_2: mar 14, 2017 ... illegal immigration from the u.s.-mexico border dropped ... on our southern  border fell by an unprecedented 40 percent," trump said march 13. the  department of homeland security recently said there had been a 40 percent  drop from january to february 2017 in illegal crossings at the southwest border.
evidence_3: dec 5, 2017 ... under the trump presidency, there has been a dramatic shift in arrests of ...  fearing checkpoints, undocumented immigrants cut off from ... shortly after  taking office, trump ordered immigration agents to ... while the numbers of  people trying to cross the southern border declined 25 percent, ron vitiello, ...
evidence_4: jun 20, 2018 ... the president, vice president and homeland security secretary have said the ...  as a result, there's been a 325 percent increase in minors, and a 435 ... “in the  last three months we've seen illegal immigration on our southern border ... at the  southwestern border also has decreased over the past decade.
evidence_5: mar 9, 2017 ... the number of people illegally crossing the u.s. southern border has dropped 40  percent in president trump's first full ... illegal border crossings decrease by 40  percent in trump's first month, report says ... and inadmissible activity is trending  toward the lowest monthly total in at least the last five years.”.