Border agents getting their mojo back as migrant crossings into US slow to a crawl ahead of Trump inauguration

President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t even been sworn in yet, but his promises of an immediate border crackdown are already stoking fear among migrants, who have started thinking twice before illegally entering the US.The recent deluge of illegal crossings — which under Biden administration “border czar” Vice President Kamala Harris soared to around 8 million — has slowed to a trickle dating back to the presidential election, officials spanning the US-Mexico border told The Post.And they don’t think the timing is a coincidence.“It’s been very slow,” said one Border Patrol source, with another noting that “since November,” foot traffic has “seemed to start to slowly repair itself” following a nearly four-year free-for-all at the southern border.“Now we are just waiting for the go-ahead to return to what our job is, which is protecting US citizens from bad people,” he said.One border officer shared that agents feel they’re getting their “mojo back” as workloads become more manageable thanks to fewer illegal crossings to deal with.At some border sectors, agents said they’ve seen the number of migrants slashed by nearly half.One source at the El Paso, Texas, border said agents at one point were processing some 1,500 illegal migrants per day.That number has since dropped to 800.Farther west, border agents in San Diego last year were catching around 2,000 migrants each day, making the region one of the top sectors for illegal crossings.Now agents are making roughly 1,000 apprehensions per day, Manny Bayon, National Border Patrol Council president for the San Diego sector, told The Post, adding that ahead of Trump’s Jan.

20 inauguration, “Mexico has improved military presence and checkpoints.”In Terrell County, a remote border region of the mountainous West Texas desert, Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland said there’s been a “recent uptick” in illegal crossings, though he clarified that it has nothing to do with the impending change...