“Illegal border crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded.”

Customs and Border Protection reported 25,243 nationwide encounters in June 2026 — the lowest monthly figure in CBP’s published records, about 12% below the previous record (February 2025) and 89% below the monthly average for 2021–2024. Border Patrol apprehensions between ports (8,039) also set a record low. The measurable claim — record-low recorded encounters — is solid. The stretch is in the wording: encounters measure people apprehended or turned back, not undetected crossings (“gotaways”), and “ever recorded” means the modern statistical series, not all of American history. The trend is real and dramatic; the superlative outruns what the data can literally show.