Migrant arrests at US-Mexico border lower than when Trump left office

WASHINGTON, - The number of migrants arrested illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in December was lower than when President-elect Donald Trump ended his first term in 2020, according to preliminary figures shared with Reuters, a relative calm that Trump could upend with sweeping changes.

Doris Meissner, a senior fellow with the non-partisan Migration Policy Institute, said Biden is poised to hand Trump the most "quiet and stable border" in years, a situation that could change if Trump blows it up without an effective replacement.