I keep seeing this statistic (or something close to it) being repeatedly touted.
Would you provide a source for this claim?
#34 | Posted by TrueBlue

If someone provides more recent data, you can compare it to this:

Migrant encounters at U.S.-Mexico border have fallen sharply in 2024

Trump deported fewer people last month than Biden a year ago, but border crossings have plummeted
About 11,000 immigrants were deported last month, compared with over 12,000 a year ago, data obtained by NBC News shows.

Encounters along the border are the lowest they have been since tracking began 25 years ago. One reason is that the Trump administration ended the CBP One program that allowed migrants to book asylum appointments via a phone app while waiting at the border. Now, migrants are turned away at the border even if they approach legal ports of entry, a policy that immigration advocacy groups have opposed in court.

The Trump administration has been slow to reveal its deportation numbers, though it has publicized its arrest and detention figures, which are up compared to the Biden administration. In Trump's first month in office, ICE arrested more than 20,000 immigrants, the Department of Homeland Security said, a 111 percent increase compared to the average monthly number of arrests during the last fiscal year.

And ICE under Trump is holding 10 percent more detainees than it was at the end of the Biden administration, according to the agency's public data. At the end of February, ICE was holding almost 44,000 migrants in detention, according to the data.

Border crossings plunge to lowest levels in decades: New data