‘They Do Not Expect This Lull To Last’: Reporter Bill Melugin Says Border Crossings Will ‘Crank Back Up’

Fox News reporter Bill Melugin said Sunday that Customs and Border Patrol agents did not expect a brief lull in the mass border crossings to be a permanent development.

Melugin said that although there had been a precipitous drop in crossings in the days since Title 42 — a Trump-era policy that allowed deportations based on the ongoing public health crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic — agents believe that once focus is diverted elsewhere, the numbers will begin to climb again.

“Illegal crossings in Texas have fallen off a cliff in the last 48 hours since T42 expiration. After a peak of 3,300 on 5/8 in the RGV earlier this week — under 500 in RGV last 24 hours. El Paso big drop too,” Melugin tweeted, attributing the sudden drop to the fact that they were seeing “more enforcement from MX, TX blocking entry, and migrants going to POEs.”

“CBP contacts tell me they do not expect this lull to last. They expect numbers to crank back up again — but not to the record setting levels we saw this week of 10,000+ per day,” Melugin continued.