The U.S. and Mexico are cooperating on border policy at an “unprecedented level” ahead of the 2024 election as border encounters fall to their lowest levels since 2020, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Customs and Border Protection’s latest numbers show that agents reported nearly 84,000 southwestern land border encounters in June, a significant drop from the record 250,000 encounters reported in December 2023. June’s numbers are the lowest under President Joe Biden but are still above the monthly average under the Trump administration. The WSJ reported that unpublished CBP data shows that border encounters in July fell to 57,000, which …