The platform said: “Seal the border, and stop the migrant invasion”
2024 Republican Platform, Promise 1What was done: Border Patrol apprehensions at the southwest border fell to their lowest level since 1970.
CBP reports 237,565 southwest border apprehensions in fiscal year 2025, the lowest total since 1970 and about 87% below the average of the four years before. According to CBP, 72% of that year’s apprehensions happened in the first 111 days, before January 20. By this measure, the promise has been kept.
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