India, June 12 -- "For the first time in decades, the US-Mexico border is silent", reads the headline of an article that the White House published Wednesday, quoting from the Arizona Republic.

"Across the entire span of the U.S.-Mexico border, the change is stark - and it happened nearly overnight. Where Border Patrol agents encountered well over 100,000 migrants and asylum seekers every month just a year ago, they now see fewer than 10,000," the report says.

More than four months into President Donald Trump's second term, one of his signature campaign promises - shutting down the flow of migrants across the border - seems fulfilled, according to the daily newspaper.

This was one of the reports published by reporters with the USA TODAY N...