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Did ‘zero’ people cross the US border last month?published at 11:05 British Summer Time
Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist
We’ve been listening back to President Donald Trump’s BBC interview.
During the call, Trump was asked about his record on illegal immigration and what was happening at the US southern border with Mexico. He made this claim:
“In the people pouring in… as you know last month it was zero. Now even I find it hard to believe it could be zero. But the people that do these reports are liberal and they said it was zero, zero people for the month.”
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) publishes monthly figures on recorded “encounters” with migrants at US borders.
Despite Trump’s “zero” claim, 8,725 encounters were recorded at the southern border with Mexico in May 2025 , externalaccording to the latest available figures., external
This is still, however, a significant drop from the same period last year under President Joe Biden, when 117,905 encounters were recorded.
Trump may have been referring to the number of illegal migrants released into the community after being apprehended by CBP, which was indeed zero in May.
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