Migrant numbers at the southern border dropped sharply in June in the full first month after the ending of the Title 42 public health order and as the Biden administration implemented its post-Title 42 strategy — bringing numbers to the lowest in two years.
There were 144,571 migrant encounters in June, compared to 207,834 in June last year and 189,034 in June 2021. In June 2020, there were just 33,049 at the border.
While the numbers are still high historically (June’s numbers are still higher than any month of the 2019 border crisis) they mark a sharp drop from the 206,702 seen in May and 211,999 in April — when many experts and commentators had expected a surge in migrant apprehensions when Title 42 ended on May 11.