[CBP reports declining border crossings and record fentanyl busts in 2024](https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/border-issues/2024/10/19/fewer-border-crossings-fentanyl-busts-cbp-reports/75726560007/)

[Migrant encounters at U.S.-Mexico border have fallen sharply in 2024](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/10/01/migrant-encounters-at-u-s-mexico-border-have-fallen-sharply-in-2024/)

[Illegal border crossings fell in July to lowest level in four years](https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/08/16/united-states-mexico-border-apprehensions-july/)

[The Biden Administration Is on Pace to Match Trump Deportation Numbers—Focusing on the Border, Not the U.S. Interior](https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/biden-deportation-record)

>Combining deportations with expulsions and other actions to block migrants without permission to enter the United States, the Biden administration’s nearly 4.4 million repatriations are already more than any single presidential term since the George W. Bush administration (5 million in its second term).

All hail the 'border czar'?