From the southern border, a department of homeland security official tells NBC News,

migrant crossings have dropped to their lowest monthly numbers since President Biden took office.

The DHS official says last month 84,000 migrants were apprehended at the southern border.

That is the same month the Biden administration announced new asylum restrictions.

This is the fourth consecutive month of declines.

It's also a 16% drop from June of last year.

16% drop from last year, because my question would have been,

isn't this kind of the slower time of the year when it gets so hot that it becomes

physically dangerous in a heat way to make this journey but when you're

looking at the numbers this year to last year, this does suggest something regarding

Biden's moves at the border is working.

Yeah, and I also have to point out, Katie, that yes, they do start to slow down because of the heat but last

June was significantly lower than May because of a new policy that had just gone into place at

the border when Title 42 ended in the end of May of last year and those new asylum policies went

into effect, we saw a steep decline then.

Now it's fallen even further.

This is now the lowest it has been since January 2021 the month that Biden took office.

So we're going to hear a lot of victory lapse, a lot of people in the Biden administration

saying, look, this is because even without Congress, the Biden administration was able to put in new

policies that raised the bar on asylum for people who cross the border illegally.

Those are people who are not coming through ports of entry, people who aren't making appointments

through the app, that means that they think that this is working.

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