After four years of Biden’s open borders, President Donald J. Trump launched an unprecedented crackdown on the illegal immigrants and deadly drugs allowed to enter our country to remarkable success — and he didn’t need legislation to do it.
- In February — President Trump’s first month in office — illegal border crossings fell to the lowest level ever recorded, down 94% from last February and down 96% from the all-time high of the Biden Administration.
- ICE arrests of illegal immigrants have surged 627%.
- Would-be illegal border crossers have “given up” and are returning to their own countries in a “reverse flow” across South America.
- Mexican cartel operatives say they are “genuinely” fearful “for the first time in years” amid the Trump Administration’s crackdown.
- Migrant shelters across the country — run by organizations that once facilitated the invasion of illegal immigrants — have been forced to shutter because they are no longer necessary.
- Illegal immigrants removed from the country has topped 50,000 as the Trump Administration continues getting illegal immigrant killers, rapists, and drug dealers off our streets.
- Mexico announced a deployment of 10,000 troops to the border to combat illegal immigration and fentanyl trafficking, while Canada announced a flurry of measures to combat fentanyl manufacturing and trafficking following President Trump’s imposition of tariffs on the two countries.
- President Trump secured the extradition of 29 Mexican drug cartel bosses to face charges for their crimes in the United States.
The crackdown began on Day One:
- President Trump ended “catch-and-release,” reversing the dangerous Biden-era policy that released dangerous illegal aliens back into our communities.
- President Trump shut down the “CBP One” app, which “paroled” more than one million illegal immigrants into the country.
- President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law, which requires illegal immigrants arrested or charged with theft or violence to be detained — honoring the legacy of Laken Riley, a Georgia college student brutally murdered by an illegal alien released into the country.
- President Trump terminated all taxpayer-funded public benefits for illegal aliens.
- President Trump re-established the successful “Remain in Mexico” policy.
- President Trump restarted construction of the border wall.
- The Trump Administration declared Tren de Aragua, MS-13, the Sinaloa Cartel, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the United Cartels, the Gulf Cartel, the Northeast Cartel, and the Michoacán Family as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
- U.S. drones have been deployed on missions to locate deadly fentanyl labs in Mexico.
- President Trump revoked Temporary Protected Status for Haitians as part of his promise to rescind policies that were magnets for illegal immigration.
- President Trump ordered an end to birthright citizenship.
- President Trump suspended the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.