Under President Donald Trump, Border Patrol agents’ encounters with illegal immigrants at the southern border (a proxy for overall crossings) have dropped by 92.9%.
In a graph the president shared on Truth Social, you can see that in the last 19 days of the Biden administration, they averaged 2,087 daily encounters.
In the first week of President Trump’s administration, that number is just 148.
This shows us that not only is aggressive enforcement of our laws working to reduce the number of illegals here now, it also greatly deters more illegal immigrants from coming to America.
While it is impossible to know for sure the exact number who successfully enter the U.S. illegally, apprehensions and arrests are often used as a proxy for successful border crossings. One study published in 2013 by the Council of Foreign Relations estimated the relationship to be roughly one successful crossing for one apprehension.
Flashback to this report from one year ago, when CBP apprehended 10,000 illegal immigrants in one day.
When liberals complain about the enforcement of our immigration laws, show them this video.
Drug cartels in Mexico are firing at Border Patrol agents because we are disrupting their drug smuggling and human trafficking business.
Weren’t we just told a couple months ago that stopping illegal aliens crossing the border what impossible because Congress would allot more money to Biden?