The remark was echoed by Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem throughout her go to to the Texas–Mexico border.
President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, mentioned Sunday that the USA’ southern border has had an unlimited drop in border encounters and crossings in current days.
Homan attributed the drop in crossings to Trump’s insurance policies, describing him as a “game-changer” and saying that “nobody has had the success he’s had in securing the border.”
“He clearly understands we will’t have sturdy nationwide safety if we don’t have border safety,” he mentioned. “We have to know who’s coming in, what’s coming in, the place, and why.”
Earlier than Trump returned to the White Home, about 2,500 Nationwide Guard and reserve forces have been persistently deployed to the border. A further 1,100 Military troopers and 500 Marines have been ordered to deploy to the border final month.
The U.S. army can also be offering army plane for Division of Homeland Safety deportation flights for greater than 5,000 detained unlawful immigrants.
A Pew Analysis Middle evaluation exhibits that U.S. border crossings reached “a report excessive” in 2023 underneath the Biden administration however dropped all through a lot of 2024.
The GOP members of Congress additionally accused the earlier administration of releasing “tens of millions of inadmissible aliens into the nation with out ample vetting or screening, to say nothing of the roughly two million extra who’ve entered as identified gotaways.”
They famous that former Border Patrol chief Raul Ortiz mentioned that “the whole variety of gotaways could possibly be underreported by as a lot as 20 p.c.”
Venezuela additionally can pay for transporting its nationals again to their residence nation, together with members of the transnational gang Tren de Aragua, Trump mentioned.
The president additionally mentioned he would impose a 25 p.c tariff on Mexico starting this week for what he mentioned was the nation’s failure to curb unlawful immigration and fentanyl trafficking.
Mexico to date has mentioned that it’s going to impose retaliatory tariffs, with out mentioning any price or merchandise.
The Related Press contributed to this report.