According to fresh information, illegal immigrant arrests dramatically decreased from more than 2, 000 per day to only 786 after President Donald Trump took office in January. The dramatic change wasn’t by chance — Trump took immediate action to secure the border, proving former President Joe Biden simply chose to allow ( and incentivize ) the mass invasion.
Border patrol agents apprehended 96, 035 workers in December, but that amount plummeted to 61, 465 in January, according to statistics from U. S. Customs and Border Protection. According to ABC News,” From Jan. 21 through Jan. 31, the number of U. S. Border Patrol apprehensions along the southwest border dropped 85 % from the same period in 2024. … In the 11 days after Jan. 20, migrants apprehended at ports of entry declined by 93 %”.
None of this was unintentional. Trump signed a number of executive commands declaring a national crisis at the southern border and directing the resumed completion of the boundary wall, as my partner John Daniel Davidson explained. Trump even reinstated his” Stay in Mexico” legislation to deter illegal bridges. Trump even gave the National Guard and active-duty personnel permission to work with Customs and Border Patrol agents to secure the border. According to Davidson, the Trump presidency even banned the use of the CBP One game, which the Biden administration had used to conduct mass paroles for unlawful border-crossers, roughly 30 000 of whom were being deported each month.
Additionally, the Trump administration has begun imposing tariffs on nations that refused to retake their own citizens. It has also begun arrests. Colombia initially refused to accept People who had illegally entered the country, and American aircraft carrying the outlawed creatures were denied entry. Gustavo Petro, the president of Colombia, also claimed that Trump needed to develop a “protocol for the respectful treatment of refugees before we receive them.”
Trump instructed Petro to “kid the rocks” and said he would impose a 25 % emergency tariff on all imported Colombian products, as well as travel restrictions and visa punishment. Soon thereafter, Petro announced Colombia may take up Colombians.
According to Davidson,” The Trump administration could had done all of this.”
Rather, as reported by my colleague Tristan Justice, Biden stopped construction of the boundary wall, “expanded the’ unlawful’ Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ( DACA ) program”, reversed” Trump-era executive orders that enforced immigration law”, issued a imprisonment ban, lost track of thousands of children improperly in the country, resurrected an Obama-era pardon system for fugitives— and the list goes on.
Biden claimed to be in charge of securing the southern boundary as the border crisis got worse, telling a columnist in January that he had “done all I can do.”
” Just give me the power! … Grant me the frontier guard! Grant me the folks! The courts! Give me the citizens who can prevent this and get it to work again. Biden responded to a writer who inquired about whether he had exercised professional power in every way.
In the times following, improper border crossings continued at record-high numbers. Unexpectedly in June, Biden suddenly had the “power” to sign an executive order to halt hospital says periodically.
It’s not that Biden ever had the upper hand; Biden didn’t want to use the upper hand to stop the country’s improper war. In the past four decades, a stable border was always within reach, according to Davidson.
But” Biden and the Democrats sold out their own Americans, threw open the edges, and therefore pretended they had no choice in the matter”.
Brianna Lyman is a journalist for The Federalist on votes. With a diploma in global political economy, Brianna received her diploma from Fordham University. Her job has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Observe Brianna on X: @briannalyman2
