Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: Crackdown Drops July Migration, Eddie Canales, Border and Election Updates

Preliminary reports indicate that Border Patrol apprehended 57,000-60,000 migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in July 2024. That is the smallest monthly total of the Biden administration and the fewest since September 2020. The drop illustrates the short-term impact of Mexico’s crackdown on migration in transit and the Biden administration’s June 5 rule restricting asylum access. Numbers are also down further south along the U.S.-bound migration route, in Panama and Honduras.

A brief from the Women’s Refugee Commission laid out several recommendations to promote orderly and safe migration throughout the Americas. They include more legal migration pathways such as an improved Cuba-Haiti-Nicaragua-Venezuela parole program; improving the Safe Mobility Initiative currently active in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Guatemala; working with civil society to implement commitments in the 2022 Los Angeles Declaration; support for Mexico’s asylum system and migrant shelters; and supporting deported non-Mexican migrants’ integration in Mexico.