Illegal border crossings into the U.S. plunge, but migrants remain desperate in Mexico

After soaring to record levels in the past three years, migrant crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border have plummeted this summer. July saw the lowest level in illegal border crossings since September 2020. CBS News immigration and politics reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez traveled to the Arizona border, as well as to Mexico, to better understand this dramatic change.

[CarrieOKing]

Plummeting my foot. Stop lying to Americans.

[m-ok-]

Talk about the 10 million that are already here and collecting every single gov aid.

[harryPair]

I just dont believe they aren't still coming. We're still giving out free money and phones. Why would they stop?

[aprilhunt]

DO IT LEGALLY!!! Stop handing them money

[OldesouthFarm]

Don’t believe you, that is not what the folks on the ground are saying…

[jbt]

Biden should have never stopped Trumps policies that were already in place.

[lisawalker]

Why do they want us to feel bad for them when they knew they shouldn't have came with no money, no family to help them?

[sylviag]

It’s a campaign ploy, we really aren’t this stupid, it could have been done 3 years ago

[shippenman]

Invasion now spelled migration. Cbs a joke

[auntieinamerica]

There is refugee visa to come to the US legally. Crossing the border doesn’t give them right to take benefits that belong to those really in need.

[RoseStorm]

Yeah it is too little to late after you let in 20+ million people. It also proves the whole situation didn’t have to happen.

[danielszymanski-jwkq]

Didn't you report the other day that the northern border is where they are coming in now????

[John-myd]

And yet we have bus loads coming into Alabama every week. Wish someone would show real news

[IGOBYTHENAMELOVE]

I mean over 12 million came that’s a lot of people

[Dan.]

US media helped create this issue and should be charged both criminally and financially.

[mine-go]

of course they're saying this now because Harris is running for president they must think we sre stupid

[raybod]

Texas needs to send a thousand bus load of ‘migrants’ to Democratic National Convention.

[rezzurektedpoet]

So full of it! Tell it to the people living along the border.

[dariasturgis]

They're also coming in thru Canada from the Middle East, China, and Africa. Independent reporters are great!

[CoalCreekCroft]

Even if it dropped to zero, that horse is so long out of the barn that it's already established its own herd.