US border migrant crossings fall for fifth month in a row
The figures have dropped dramatically since December, when there were around 250,000 apprehensions.
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US Border Patrol agents apprehended around 57,000 migrants along the border in July - the lowest recorded since September 2020.
The numbers are down significantly from December, when around 250,000 migrants were caught crossing the border.
President Joe Biden's administration has credited the decrease to recent actions by him to tackle illegal immigration into the US, an election-year political vulnerability for the Democrats.
"This is the product of a number of actions this administration has taken," said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in an interview with CBS this week.
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