You can almost hear a pin drop at the border.
Border crossings have plummeted to levels not seen in decades this month following President’s Trump’s swift crackdown on illegal immigration across the southwest, The Post can reveal.
So far in February, about 359 illegal migrants per day have been caught across the entire southern border — down more than 90% from February 2024, according to leaked Customs and Border Protection data.
That puts the US on track to have the lowest monthly border crossings in at least 25 years. If the trend continues, the number of illegal migrants coming into the US could hit a level not seen since 1968, nearly 60 years ago.
It’s the lowest the US has seen “in almost a lifetime,” said Mark Krikorian, the executive director at the Center for Immigration Studies.
“If you kind of break down the numbers, divide them by 365, we haven’t had numbers this low since the 1960s. So we’re talking 60-year lows if it’s sustained, obviously,” he said.
The CBP data shows that just 3,953 illegal migrants have been caught this month through Feb. 11.
If the trend continues through the month, that would put February border crossings at roughly 10,000, which is a number that hasn’t been seen since CBP began tracking month-to-month data in 1999.
The closest crossings have come to 10,000 was in April 2017 — shortly after Trump took office the first time — when monthly crossings exceeded 11,000.
“That’s a very, very low number,” said John Gramlich, the associate director at the Pew Research Center.
He noted that border crossings have been trending down for nearly a year, after former President Joe Biden moved to make it tougher for illegal migrants to claim asylum at the border.
This time last year, border agents were seeing 4,850 migrants crossing on average each day — more than 10 times current levels, federal data shows.
And the effects are being felt across the entire southern border.
In Terrell County, Texas, Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland says his office is usually flooded with reports of illegal migrant crossings this time of year due to the the cooler weather at the border.
“It’s a relief,” Cleveland told The Post.
“We’ve gone from one extreme to the other extreme, historic levels of people crossing, historic levels of the low apprehensions. It’s very surprising,” he said.
San Diego, California, remains the number one region for illegal border crossings, where 934 illegal migrants have crossed so far this month.
The Trump administration has nearly sealed off the border with Mexico, ending the Biden administration’s “catch and release” policy, deploying thousands of additional troops to the border and commencing a mass deportation effort across the nation.
“Already in the last few weeks a message is being sent out that the border isn’t going to be trampled over anymore, that national security isn’t a joke to us,” a Border Patrol source told The Post of the changes.
Mexico to sent 10,000 of its own troops to the border after Trump threatened to impose a sweeping 25% tariff on all imports to the US.
Meanwhile, the new administration has also focused on ramping up ICE raids, leading to 11,000 arrests of illegal migrants roaming the country within the first 18 days of Trump’s tenure.
Trump has also started sending illegal migrant criminals to Guantanamo Bay and restarted deportation flights to Venezuela after the Maduro regime halted the effort for nearly a year.
Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks recently said on “Fox & Friends” that agents working the frontlines needed Trump’s leadership to get the job done.
“US Border Patrol knows how to get the job done, we know how to secure the border,” he said.
“All we needed was a president that was going to empower us — a strong leader like President Trump — and a secretary like Secretary Noem that knows exactly what we need to do to secure the border.”
