Illegal alien deaths in Eagle Pass, Texas, have dropped sharply under President Donald Trump’s border security measures, according to Mexican consular officials. Since January, five deaths have been recorded in and around the small border city—less than one per month. That figure marks a drastic decline compared to the Biden administration, when migrant deaths often reached one per day.
Vivian Juárez, spokesperson for the Consul General of Mexico in Eagle Pass, told La Rancherita del Aire that most deaths this year appear to have been caused by heat-related dehydration. She credited Trump’s enforcement measures, enacted in January, for reducing both migrant deaths and illegal crossings.
The contrast with the Biden years is stark. In July 2023, at the peak of border chaos, the Del Rio Sector averaged one death daily. In September 2022, nine migrants drowned in a single day attempting to cross the Rio Grande. Overwhelmed funeral homes and morgues in Maverick County were forced to use refrigerated trailers for overflow migrant remains, a crisis that lasted more than two years.
Today, the numbers look very different. Customs and Border Protection reports show apprehensions plummeted from nearly 5,000 per day in December 2023 to fewer than 15 on most days in July 2025. That represents a 90% reduction compared to the Biden era.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem praised the success, saying, “History made, again. The numbers don’t lie—this is the most secure the border has ever been. President Trump didn’t just manage the crisis—he obliterated it. No more excuses. No more releases. We’ve put the cartels on defense and taken our border back.”
The United Nations documented 686 migrant deaths at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2022, naming it the world’s deadliest land crossing. With Trump’s policies reversing that trend in Eagle Pass, local communities are finally seeing relief after years of crisis.
