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国土安全部报告本财年美国边境过境人数创历史最低，且无移民被释放入境
作者：斯蒂芬妮·普莱斯 福克斯新闻网
前边境巡逻局长警告：特朗普的边境成果可能付诸东流
退休的亚利桑那州尤马分区边境巡逻局长克里斯·克莱姆回忆了拜登执政时期移民激增导致执法人员不堪重负的场景，解释了唐纳德·特朗普总统执政时期局面如何扭转，并警告政治动向可能危及现有成果。
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唐纳德·特朗普总统的边境强硬执法大幅减少了前总统乔·拜登执政时期令执法人员不堪重负的非法越境事件。美国国土安全部（DHS）周四报告称，边境逮捕人数创下历史新低，且本财年边境巡逻队完全没有将移民释放入境。
对于退休的亚利桑那州尤马分区美国海关与边境保护局（CBP）边境巡逻局长克里斯·克莱姆而言，这一转变与昔日形成鲜明对比——当时他的手下根本来不及接应移民，后果蔓延到社区、农场和当地企业。
“他们开始直接穿过农田，开始在城镇里乱跑，”克莱姆告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，回忆起2021年12月的移民激增情况，“他们开始去食品银行，开始不分昼夜地敲居民家门。”
特朗普政府实现边境零释放连续15个月，逮捕人数暴跌94%
2021年8月15日，在亚利桑那州圣路易斯，试图从墨西哥越境进入美国的移民被美国海关与边境保护局拘留。（尼克·尤特/盖蒂图片社）
不过，克莱姆表示，他将逮捕人数下降归功于更严格的执法和被驱逐的威慑，但他警告称，这些成果可能面临新的威胁——华盛顿的政治动向变化。
“国会中很多人急于推翻本届总统的政策，这会让很多政策决策陷入僵局，”克莱姆说，他警告称，国会控制权的更迭可能通过拨款决策和政策限制使执法复杂化，而未来的总统政府可能会全面推翻现有政策。
国土安全部周四发布的初步数据显示，2026财年边境巡逻队在西南边境的逮捕人数为98708人，较拜登政府时期年均超过180万的逮捕人数下降了约95%。
这相当于西南边境日均逮捕约270人，而按照国土安全部采用的拜登时期年均数据，日均逮捕人数约为5000人。
仅在尤马地区，克莱姆回忆称，日均入境人数从2020年12月的约25人攀升至2021年12月的1000多人。他表示，当月一段特别艰难的三天时间里，日均入境人数接近1500人。
特朗普大幅背离拜登边境政策，迎来戏剧性里程碑：“变化何其之大”
2025年5月21日，亚利桑那州尤马的一段美墨边境墙。（丹妮尔·华莱士/福克斯新闻数字频道，资料图）
他表示，恶劣天气和资源短缺加剧了执法压力，导致执法人员难以将移民从边境地带转移走。
“那真的是最危急的时刻，因为华盛顿的边境安全政策彻底失败，真正影响到了当地社区，”克莱姆说。
他表示，手下的探员始终坚守使命，但移民数量实在过于庞大。
“探员们的态度都很端正，他们知道自己必须完成任务，”克莱姆说，“但当你 literally 以100比1的数量处于劣势时，工作会非常艰难。”
国土安全部的最新数据显示，整个财年西南边境的逮捕人数都低于拜登政府最繁忙单月的249740人的一半。
国土安全部还表示，9月标志着边境巡逻队连续17个月未将移民释放入境，完成了该机构所称的首个零释放完整财年。
国土安全部称数百万非法移民被遣返，特朗普执政下边境过境人数下降94%
2023年12月7日，在亚利桑那州卢克维尔，移民在越境后在美国边境巡逻处理中心排队。（约翰·摩尔/盖蒂图片社，资料图）
克莱姆表示，在拜登政府时期，“只要抵达边境，你就会被办理手续并获释”的承诺，是人口走私贩子强有力的推销手段。
他描述了当时走私者的说辞：“如果你能到边境，就会被登记放行。”
他认为，改变这种预期是劝阻非法越境的核心。
“他们知道自己不会像拜登-哈里斯政府时期那样被办理手续后释放，”克莱姆说。
白宫边境事务专员汤姆·霍曼5月在凤凰城边境安全博览会上发表讲话。（丽贝卡·诺布尔/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社，资料图）
他将成效归功于人员、基础设施、技术和非法入境处罚措施的综合作用，而非单一举措。
执法行动也延伸到了边境之外。
克莱姆表示，美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）在境内开展的行动增加了另一层威慑，明确了即便躲过边境巡逻，也仍有可能被逮捕和驱逐。
“如果我们既有强硬的边境态势，又有强有力的内部执法，这就是成功的秘诀，”他说。
边境事务专员汤姆·霍曼周四也提到了这一内部执法行动，称移民海关执法局创下了特朗普重新执政以来单日驱逐人数的最高纪录。
“我们正在全力推进驱逐工作——全速运转，同时还在拓展能力，将驱逐人数提升至目前的破纪录水平之上，”霍曼在社交媒体上写道。
他表示，他前往路易斯安那州亚历山大市的移民海关执法局航空行动部门视察驱逐行动，包括一架载有多名有严重攻击、性侵犯、绑架、殴打等犯罪记录的海地人的返程航班。
他还表示，移民海关执法局9月的驱逐人数超过了以往任何一个月，但他的帖子未提供具体总数或比较时段。他表示，2026财年的数据仍在最终敲定中。
移民海关执法局的驱逐人数统计与边境巡逻队的逮捕和释放人数分属移民系统的不同环节。
“特朗普总统向美国人民承诺建立安全的边境，数据证明他做到了，”国土安全部部长马克韦恩·马伦在公布边境数据的声明中表示，“结果再清楚不过：强有力的执法行之有效。”
不过，克莱姆警告称，逮捕人数下降并不意味着走私者或试图偷渡的人带来的威胁就此消失。
“总会有人偷偷越境，那这些人是谁？”他说。
2025年1月，新墨西哥州圣特雷莎的美墨南部边境航拍图。（赫丽卡·马丁内斯/法新社 via 盖蒂图片社，资料图）
他认为，混杂的政治信号也会给走私者可乘之机，让他们以美国政策会变化为承诺，诱使人们踏上危险的旅程。
“当我们的政策不明确、不透明，且我们没有承担责任时，这就成了走私组织的营销工具，”他说。
在克莱姆看来，辩论移民政策与维护边境安全之间的区别至关重要。
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“我们确实存在需要解决的移民问题，”他说，“我们需要找到办法留住和招募那些已经在美国、愿意贡献力量的外国国民。”
“但在维护边境安全这一点上，所有这些都不重要，”克莱姆补充道，“我们始终应该以保障美国的安全为目标。”
斯蒂芬妮·普莱斯是福克斯新闻的撰稿人，专注报道西海岸和中西部新闻、失踪人员案件、国内及国际犯罪故事、凶杀案以及边境安全。
Former Border Patrol chief recalls Biden migrant surge chaos as Trump crackdown delivers historic turnaround
October 16, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News
DHS reports lowest fiscal year border crossings in US history and with zero migrant releases into the country
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Former Border Patrol chief warns Trump’s border gains could unravel
Retired Yuma Arizona Sector Border Patrol Chief Chris Clem recalls agents being overwhelmed during the Biden-era migrant surge, explains what changed under President Donald Trump, and warns political shifts could jeopardize progress.
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President Donald Trump’s border crackdown has sharply reduced the illegal crossings that overwhelmed agents under former President Joe Biden, with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reporting Thursday historic lows in apprehensions and a full fiscal year without Border Patrol releasing migrants into the country.
For retired Yuma Arizona Sector U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol Chief Chris Clem, the turnaround stands in sharp contrast to days when his agents could not pick up migrants fast enough and the consequences spilled into neighborhoods, farms and local businesses.
“They just started walking through the agriculture fields. They started running through town,” Clem told Fox News Digital, recalling the surge in December 2021. “They started going to the food bank. They started knocking on people’s doors at all hours of the nights.”
TRUMP ADMIN MARKS 15 STRAIGHT MONTHS WITH ZERO BORDER RELEASES AS APPREHENSIONS PLUNGE 94%
Migrants attempt to cross into the U.S. from Mexico are detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the southern border, Aug. 15, 2021, in San Luis, Ariz.(Nick Ut/Getty Images)
But while Clem said he credits stronger enforcement and the prospect of deportation with helping drive the decline, he warned that the gains could face another threat — a political shift in Washington.
“There are a lot of policy decisions that can be really jammed up by a Congress that’s gung-ho to overturn what this president has done,” said Clem, who warned that changes in congressional control could complicate enforcement through funding decisions and policy restrictions, while a future presidential administration could pursue broader reversals.
Preliminary DHS figures released Thursday show Border Patrol recorded 98,708 southwest border apprehensions in fiscal year 2026, roughly 95% below the annual average of more than 1.8 million during the Biden administration.
That translates to about 270 apprehensions a day across the southwest border, compared with roughly 5,000 using the department’s Biden-era annual average.
In Yuma alone, Clem recalled daily arrivals climbing from roughly 25 in December 2020, to more than 1,000 by December 2021. During a particularly difficult three-day stretch that month, he said, daily arrivals approached 1,500.
TRUMP HITS DRAMATIC MILESTONE IN MASSIVE DEPARTURE FROM BIDEN BORDER PLAN: ‘WHAT A DIFFERENCE’
A stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Yuma, Ariz., May 21, 2025.(Danielle Wallace/Fox News Digital, File)
Weather problems and a shortage of resources compounded the strain, leaving agents struggling to transport people from the border, he said.
“That was really when it, you know, was the most critical for me because we had the true community impact of a failed border security policy out of Washington, D.C.,” Clem said.
His agents remained committed to the mission, he said, but the volume was overwhelming.
“The agents, their heads were in the right place. They knew they had to do the job,” Clem said. “But when you’re outnumbered, literally 100 to one, it’s very difficult.”
The new DHS figures put an entire fiscal year of southwest border apprehensions below half the 249,740 recorded during the Biden administration’s single busiest month.
DHS also said September marked the 17th consecutive month without Border Patrol releasing migrants into the country, completing what it described as the agency’s first full fiscal year with zero releases.
DHS TOUTS MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT DEPARTURES AS BORDER CROSSINGS DROP 94% UNDER TRUMP
Migrants line up at a U.S. Border Patrol processing center after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on Dec. 7, 2023, in Lukeville, Ariz.(John Moore/Getty Images, File)
Clem said the prospect of being released had given smugglers a powerful selling point during the previous administration.
“If you get to the border, you’re gonna be processed, and you’ll be let go,” he said, describing the pitch.
He argued that changing that expectation is central to discouraging illegal crossings.
“They know that they’re not gonna be processed and released, which was the status quo under the Biden-Harris administration,” Clem said.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S IMMIGRATION PUSH FUELS ICE’S BIGGEST ARREST MONTH IN AGENCY HISTORY
White House border czar Tom Homan delivers an address at the Border Security Expo in May in Phoenix.(Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg via Getty Images, File)
He credited a combination of personnel, infrastructure, technology and consequences for illegal entry, rather than any single measure.
The enforcement effort also extends beyond the border itself.
Clem said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations inside the country add another layer, making clear that getting past Border Patrol does not eliminate the possibility of arrest and removal.
“When you combine the strong border posture, as well as the strong and robust interior enforcement, it’s a recipe for success,” he said.
Border czar Tom Homan pointed to that interior enforcement push Thursday, saying ICE had recorded its highest single-day deportation total since Trump returned to office.
TRUMP DHS HITS 16 STRAIGHT MONTHS WITH 0 RELEASES AT THE BORDER
“We are deportation-maxxing—firing on all cylinders while still expanding our capabilities to ramp up removals beyond current record-breaking levels,” Homan wrote on social media.
Homan said he visited ICE Air Operations in Alexandria, Louisiana, to observe removal operations, including a flight returning Haitians he said had criminal records involving aggravated assault, sexual assault, kidnapping, battery and other offenses.
He also said ICE conducted more removals in September than in any other month, though his post did not provide totals or specify the comparison period. Fiscal year 2026 figures were still being finalized, he said.
The ICE removal figures measure a separate part of the immigration system from Border Patrol apprehensions and releases.
“President Trump promised the American people a secure border, and the data proves he delivered,” DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a statement announcing the border figures. “The results could not be clearer: strong enforcement works.”
Still, Clem cautioned that lower numbers do not eliminate threats from smugglers or people trying to evade detection.
“There are always gonna be that risk where somebody does sneak through. Who is that person?” he said.
Aerial view of the U.S.-Mexico southern border in Santa Teresa, N.M., in January.(Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty Images, File)
He argued that mixed political messages can also give smugglers an opening to lure people into dangerous journeys with promises that U.S. policies will change.
“When our policies aren’t clear and transparent, and we’re not holding ourselves accountable, it’s a marketing tool for the smuggling organizations,” he said.
For Clem, the distinction between debating immigration policy and maintaining border security is essential.
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“We have an immigration issue we need to address,” he said. “We need to find a way to retain and recruit those that are here, that are foreign nationals that want to contribute.”
“But none of that should matter when it comes down to securing the border,” Clem added. “We should always be looking at keeping America safe.”
Stepheny Price is a Writer at Fox News with a focus on West Coast and Midwest news, missing persons, national and international crime stories, homicide cases, and border security.
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