THE FOLLOW UP
STATEMENT

Southern border records ninth straight month with zero illegal crossings, White House says

Misleading

Facts are technically correct but framed in a way that likely leads to a wrong impression. Learn more in Methodology.

Interesting: 0/0 • Support: 0/0Log in to vote
enforcement

Nine consecutive months with zero illegal southern border crossings.

Source summary
This White House article argues that the Trump administration has delivered a string of recent policy victories, citing a record-high Dow Jones, large ICE arrest operations, a federal appeals court upholding detention policy, falling crime and murder rates, easing housing and prescription costs, and nine consecutive months of zero reported illegal southern border crossings. The piece frames these developments as evidence that the administration’s America First agenda is succeeding and urges readers not to panic.
View original article →
Latest fact check

Official DHS and CBP releases (Feb. 4, 2026) confirm U.S. Border Patrol recorded a “historic 9th straight month” of zero “releases” into the interior, but those same sources report 6,073 Southwest border apprehensions in January 2026 and 34,631 nationwide encounters that month. "Zero releases" refers specifically to not releasing apprehended individuals into the U.S. interior, not to zero illegal crossings; CBP data show migrants continued to cross and were apprehended. Verdict: Misleading — the statement conflates CBP's "zero releases" metric with the claim that there were no illegal crossings, which official CBP/DHS data contradict.

Sources

Timeline

  1. Update · Feb 10, 2026, 06:12 AMMisleading
    Official DHS and CBP releases (Feb. 4, 2026) confirm U.S. Border Patrol recorded a “historic 9th straight month” of zero “releases” into the interior, but those same sources report 6,073 Southwest border apprehensions in January 2026 and 34,631 nationwide encounters that month. "Zero releases" refers specifically to not releasing apprehended individuals into the U.S. interior, not to zero illegal crossings; CBP data show migrants continued to cross and were apprehended. Verdict: Misleading — the statement conflates CBP's "zero releases" metric with the claim that there were no illegal crossings, which official CBP/DHS data contradict.
  2. Update · Feb 10, 2026, 05:17 AMFalse
    Official CBP and DHS statements cited a milestone of "nine straight months of zero releases at the border," but CBP's own data show thousands of encounters and 6,073 U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions along the Southwest (southern) border in January 2026. "Zero releases" refers to not releasing apprehended migrants into the U.S. interior (parole/release), not to an absence of illegal crossings or apprehensions. Verdict: False — the claim that there were "zero illegal border crossings at the southern border" is contradicted by CBP data; the accurate claim is that CBP recorded zero releases, not zero crossings.
  3. Original article · Feb 09, 2026
    View article
Back to Countdowns

Comments

Only logged-in users can comment.
Loading…