Illegal immigrant rescues and deaths in the U.S. Border Patrol’s Yuma Sector are down nearly 80 percent compared to the same time last year, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials announced on April 25.
Yuma Sector Chief Patrol Agent Justin De La Torre told reporters at a press briefing in Yuma, Arizona, that for fiscal year 2025, his agents have so far conducted 19 rescues and recorded one death.
That’s about a 79 percent drop from the 89 rescues and six deaths agents recorded over the same period last year.
The decrease tracks with the overall downward trend in illegal immigrant arrests at the U.S.–Mexico border. While Yuma Sector agents in May 2022 made more than 3,000 arrests, that number dropped to 186 in March, with 160 tracked illegal entries, according to De La Torre….