There's been a very noticeable drop in Illegals coming through - none of them were really staying too long because there's not much economic reason for them to but there were times when I'd see bunches of them pan-handling on street corners or lined up at a church downtown that was somehow involved in "migrant services" and that has all stopped as of late. I've been hearing a bunch of helicopters in the area the last couple of days. I haven't seen any up close but I believe them to be military because we don't get a lot of chopper action on the regular - just a couple medivacs a week to local hospitals would be the usual traffic. This morning I heard them for almost 2 hours solid just after dawn. Border fence was pretty complete close by but big gaps exist starting about 20 miles west of here. Local news covered construction happening 24 hours a day on those areas starting mid last week. My local libtard city government is putting out policy statements about being a "Welcoming community" that will not be cooperating with federal immigration enforcement - I'm pretty sure that will all change once the first city official tries to interfere with the process and winds up in cuffs. Anyone else close to the border encouraged to share what they're seeing.
Edit: I'll be making a trip this weekend that has me passing through the Border Patrol checkpoint. The last several trip through (all during the Biden era), stations have been mostly waving people through without asking citizenship and even have had them closed and unmanned at various times so they could help process illegals at the border instead. I will make a new post if I notice any tighter enforcement (drug dogs, more CBP vehicles than usual, vehicles pulled over for closer inspection, etc.)
And as the invaders are finding out in Boston and Chicago and such that grandstanding doesn't mean that the city is actually doing anything really to hinder ICE, just means they're not handing people directly over to them. ICE is still just going right into these places and rounding people up so unless the city police keep the invaders in jail there's nothing stopping ICE from getting them.
They (my city officials) are just running their mouths to keep their lib base happy. There is literally nothing they can do to stop CBP from doing their jobs. My town is within the 100-mile "Border Enforcement Zone" that basically gives CBP the ability to stop and search vehicles or ask for documentation without a warrant. Boston is within that zone as well because the zone also includes coastlines for international waterways like the Atlantic ocean. Houston is also because of their proximity to the Gulf of America
https://ballsandstrikes.org/legal-culture/border-patrol-100-mile-zone-explainer/