SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- In March, illegal border crossings hit a new record low, according to data from the White House released on Tuesday. According to the new data, Border Patrol encountered 7,181 illegal migrants at the southern border in March, a 95% decrease from 2024, when a reported 137 ,473 migrants were encountered at the border. The data also shows a 96% decrease since 2023, and a 97% decrease from 2022, when 211,181 illegal migrants were reported. With a little more than two months into the Trump administration, the changes are evident. Local migrant advocacy group, American Friends Service Committee, said they are seeing more enforcement, more wiring getting put on the border wall, a national guard presence, and nearly zero migrants. Whiskey 8, the name for a border wall gate in San Ysidro, used to be a common spot for migrants to gather as they wait to seek asylum. Border Patrol agents stay with stranded Mexican women overnight on Otay Mountain During the end of Title 42 in May 2023, hundreds of migrants waited there for days to be picked up by Border Patrol agents to begin the process to seek asylum. During that time, the American Friends Service Committee, with the help of volunteers, helped with emergency supplies, clothes, food and basic necessities during the time the asylum seekers were waiting. One of their tents remains, but they haven't seen a migrant since mid-February. “We haven’t seen people in a while," Adriana Jasso, the committee's program coordinator said. Pedro Rios, the director of the committee, said the way migrants are trying to get into the U.S. is changing. “The past couple of years we have been providing food and water," Rios said. “Now we aren’t doing that because there just aren't people arriving in the same way.” “It’s a mixed feeling," Jasso said. "The setup was to provide a service to people, we don't have people on the other side which is a good thing," she added. "But at the same time, I worry that the reinforcement and some of the changes that we see in the landscape could potentially lead to the loss of life." One migrant dead, another injured in fall from San Diego border wall On Monday night, one person died and another was hurt while trying to climb the wall. Rios said they are seeing less people trying to climb the wall, and more people trying to enter the U.S. through the ocean. “It’s not as common anymore because of the presence of the Mexican National Guard on the south side. They also are preventing certain types of migration patterns that we might have seen in the past, however I don’t think it's going to stop everyone trying to scale the border wall," he added. US Coast Guard ‘tripled’ personnel to prevent maritime human smuggling The Coast Guard said they have tripled their fleet in the last two months, but Rios said trying to cross through the ocean is extremely dangerous. “Often times people don’t know how to swim, they’re not told of what the dangers are, they're not wearing the proper equipment in case they do fall into the ocean. Sometimes boats, which are small Panga boats, are overpacked with people.” The committee said they are shifting more of their efforts for educating migrants already on U.S. soil. ...read more read less