Illegal Border Crossings Drop, But Rescues Rise in June

Numbers of illegal border crossings in the last six years. The red line shows the current fiscal year. CBP

WASHINGTON—After a three-month plateau, illegal border crossings along the southwest border dropped in June.

New data for June shows that just over 42,000 individuals were arrested or deemed inadmissible, an 18 percent decline over May (51,905), but still almost double from June 2017, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).