Illegal border crossings at record lows as Trump crackdown spreads

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1. Two graphs in article (sorry, one has to click the OP's link, repeated below, to see them)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/08/trump-invasion-border-crossings-wartime-powers/83730925007/

I encountered no paywall.

There's a graph of monthly "border encounters" beginning in 2000. It has averaged about 100k/month according to my eyeball impression, with an average of about 40k/month in the 2010-2020 decade. Then it spiked up eventually to a peak of 250k/month. It is currently at 8.38k/month at the latest, presumably May. (Unfortunately there is no pop-up of the data points when one hovers the mouse over a point on the graph)

There's also a bar graph of the detention population since January -- with a bar every 2 weeks -- each bar is divided into 3 parts: (a) Convicted criminal, (b) pending criminal charges, and (c) other immigration violator "includes people without any known criminal convictions or pending criminal chargers"