U.S. Border Patrol experienced fewer encounters with illegal aliens last month than agents did on a daily basis under the Biden administration, Border Czar Tom Homan pointed out.
Federal authorities had a total of 6,070 encounters with illegal aliens attempting to enter the United States in the entire month of June, marking a radical drop-off from the Biden era.
“That is less than a single day under Biden. As a matter of fact, the total number of encounters is less than half of a single day under Biden on many days,” Homan <a href="https://x.com/RealTomHoman/status/1940156659084796257">asserted</a> in a post on X.
The figure marks a drastic decline from June 2024 under the Biden administration, when Border Patrol had more than 87,000 encounters with illegal aliens on the northern and southern borders combined. The figures were even higher in 2023 and 2022 under the Biden administration, when Border Patrol had 100,000 and 193,000 encounters, respectively.
June’s figures indicate a 93.1 percent drop in border encounters since 2024 and a 94 percent and 97 percent increase when compared to 2023 and 2022.
Homan also explained that, of those encountered on the border, not a single one was let into the United States. “None of the 6,070 were released into the U.S. ZERO. President Trump has created the most secure border in the history of the nation and the data proves it,” Homan added. “We have never seen numbers this low.”
&#8220;The interior arrests and consequences help to drive down illegal immigration,&#8221; he went on to say in his post on social media.
The Border Patrol similarly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/zero-illegal-aliens-released-into-u-s-in-may-by-customs-and-border-protection?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=20&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Zero+Illegal+Aliens+Released+Into+U.S.+In+May+By+Customs+And+Border+Protection">indicated</a> that it did not allow a single individual into the United States in the month of May. Agents encountered 8,725 illegal aliens during the month, a sharp 93 percent drop off from May 2024 under the Biden administration, when agents encountered a whopping 117,000 illegal aliens between ports of entry and released roughly 62,000 into the interior of the country.
“This administration has seen the fastest improvement in American border security of all time,” Customs and Border Protection said after announcing May’s border numbers.

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A mortgage lending company is marketing its loans to illegal aliens across the country, promising to “empower non-citizens” as it profits from the fallout of America’s border crisis.
Amres, a Pennsylvania-based company, offers loans across the continental United States and instructs illegal aliens on how they can obtain mortgages by leveraging a financial loophole. The company outlined its plan to “<a href="https://www.amres.com/amres-resources/itin-mortgages-empowering-non-citizens-in-the-housing-market">empower non-citizens</a>” through Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN), which illegal aliens can obtain from the IRS. ITINs were created to allow non-citizens to comply with tax law and were never intended to be used as identification for lending.
“ITIN loans serve as a lifeline for a specific demographic: immigrant homebuyers who lack a Social Security Number (SSN),” <a href="https://www.amres.com/amres-resources/the-advantages-of-itin-loans-for-immigrant-homebuyers-a-comprehensive-guide">Amres says</a> in one of its guides. “This includes non-resident aliens, undocumented immigrants, and some lawful residents.”
The company made its targeting of illegal aliens particularly clear in a different <a href="https://www.amres.com/amres-resources/itin-loans-bridging-the-gap-for-undocumented-residents">guide</a>, called “Bridging the Gap for Undocumented Residents,” which outlines how individual taxpayer identification numbers, distributed by the IRS, can be used by illegal aliens to obtain loans. “ITIN loans offer numerous advantages to undocumented residents,” the company says in the guide. “One of the primary benefits is that they provide a pathway to homeownership, a dream that may seem unattainable due to legal status.”
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“ITIN loans play a crucial role in the mortgage industry as they enable lenders to extend credit to a wider range of borrowers. This includes those who may not have a Social Security number,” Amres says.
Amres even shared the stories of specific illegal aliens it says were able to take out a mortgage.
“Take, for example, the Rodriguez family,” Amres <a href="https://www.amres.com/amres-resources/itin-loans-bridging-the-gap-for-undocumented-residents">writes in the guide</a>. “As undocumented residents, they had been living in a cramped apartment, struggling to save for a home. When they discovered ITIN loans, they were able to secure a mortgage and purchase a house.”
“Ms. Lopez, a single mother and an undocumented resident, was able to purchase her first home through an ITIN loan,” Amres goes on to say.
Amres cites more stories in <a href="https://www.amres.com/amres-resources/the-advantages-of-itin-loans-for-immigrant-homebuyers-a-comprehensive-guide">another guide</a> to ITIN lending. “Juan, a Mexican immigrant, faced difficulties securing a home loan due to his lack of social security number. However, with an ITIN loan, he was able to buy a home for his family,” the company says. “Maria, a single mother from Guatemala, was able to secure an ITIN loan despite her non-resident status.”
“These stories highlight the transformative power of ITIN loans, breaking down barriers for immigrant homebuyers and providing a pathway to homeownership. They underscore the importance of financial inclusivity,” the company goes on to say, as it touts its lending options for illegal aliens.
This same ITIN lending scheme is what fueled the growth of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-colony-ridge-the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants">Colony Ridge</a>, the massive Texas development that attracted thousands of illegal aliens, including cartel members, human smugglers, drug runners, and wanted murderers.
Amres did not respond to a request for comment.
These mortgages, Federation for American Immigration Reform Media Director Ira Mehlman says, could encourage illegal aliens to stay in the United States. 
“Access to mortgages can serve as an incentive for illegal aliens to remain in the country, especially at a time when the goal of the government is convincing illegal aliens to leave,” Mehlman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-company-financing-the-illegal-alien-takeover-of-american-homes">previously told</a> The Daily Wire. Congress could take many actions — from disclosure to outright prohibition — and set a national standard for states to follow.”
Amres is far from the only company that uses the ITIN lending to hand out mortgages to illegal aliens. Prysma Lending operates in seven different states, including Florida and Texas, as it similarly markets its mortgage loans to illegal aliens, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-company-financing-the-illegal-alien-takeover-of-american-homes?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=Investigation&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Meet+The+Mortgage+Company+Enabling+Illegal+Immigrants+To+Buy+American+Homes">revealed. </a>The company even hosted a talk with an immigration lawyer to discuss deportations and created a guide for illegal aliens on how to avoid deportations. “No Social Security or Green Card required,” Prysma says. “You have a right to homeownership, regardless of legal status.”
There’s also Beneficial State Bank, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bank-founded-by-democrat-billionaire-loans-illegals-money-to-fight-systemic-racism?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Bank+Founded+By+Democrat+Billionaire+Loans+Illegals+Money+To+Fight+%E2%80%98Systemic+Racism%E2%80%99">offers auto loans</a> to illegal aliens using ITINs as part of its broader plan to fight “systemic racism.” The company, founded by Democrat billionaire Tom Steyer, admits it has “extensive experience with loans tailored to the unique needs of undocumented immigrants.”
The ITIN lending scheme could become more precarious for lenders, however. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the IRS recently signed an <a href="https://immigrationforum.org/article/irs-ice-immigration-data-sharing-agreement-explainer/">agreement</a> allowing immigration enforcement agents to obtain the names, addresses, and tax information for illegal aliens facing removal orders.
The agreement could aid in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign, and discourage illegal aliens from filing for ITINs.

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The Trump administration identified three Mexican financial institutions that it says are complicit in laundering funds on behalf of criminal cartels that traffic fentanyl into the United States.
Two banks and one brokerage firm, which collectively manage $22 billion in assets, were identified by the Treasury Department on Wednesday as key players in the cartels’ fentanyl trafficking operations. The federal agency specifically accused the three institutions of laundering millions of dollars on behalf of the cartels and facilitating payments for the precursor chemicals for fentanyl, and now prohibits American financial institutions from carrying out certain transactions to and from the three Mexican institutions.
“Financial facilitators like CIBanco, Intercam, and Vector are enabling the poisoning of countless Americans by moving money on behalf of cartels, making them vital cogs in the fentanyl supply chain,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0179">charged</a>.
“Through the first use of this powerful authority, today’s actions affirm Treasury’s commitment to using all tools at our disposal to counter the threat posed by criminal and terrorist organizations trafficking fentanyl and other narcotics.”
The Treasury Department specifically explained that a CIBanco employee authorized the creation of an account by a Gulf Cartel member who purportedly intended to launder $10 million. The executive agency also warned that the bank has a “long-standing pattern of associations, transactions, and provision of financial services” with the Gulf Cartel, Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), and the Beltran-Leyva Cartel.
Intercam executives are believed to have met with CJNG members to discuss money laundering schemes, which included processing transactions to and from China. Mexican companies also used Intercam to send more than a million dollars to a Chinese company with ties to an individual who shipped fentanyl precursor chemicals to Mexico.
Vector is similarly believed to assist in the procurement of those precursor chemicals on behalf of both the Gulf and Sinaloa Cartels. The federal agency asserts that a money launderer working on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel moved $2 million through Vector from 2013 to 2021.
The move marks another step in the Treasury’s campaign to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-treasury-official-reveals-how-the-trump-admin-is-choking-off-cartels-cash-flow?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Treasury+Official+Lays+Out+How+Trump+Is+Choking+Off+Cash+Flow+To+Cartels">choke off funds</a> from the criminal cartels. The agency has unveiled numerous sanctions against leaders and personnel from the Sinaloa Cartel, Tren de Aragua, and Cartel del Noreste.
“If the money is not flowing back south, then there’s less of an incentive to bring the drugs and the guns and some of the illicit activity up to the north,” Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Michael Faulkender told The Daily Wire.

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The Supreme Court paused an order from a lower court judge preventing the Trump administration from deporting illegal aliens to so-called “third countries&#8221; that are willing to accept aliens from other nations.
The 6-3 Supreme Court <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-deport-certain-immigrants-third-countries-rcna209419">ruling</a> is a victory for the Trump administration, which previously had to allow illegal aliens the opportunity to contest their deportation to nations other than their country of origin. The ruling gives the administration the ability to deport those whose nations of origin are unwilling to accept them, potentially paving the way for <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/23/supreme-court-immigrants-deport-torture-sudan/83885228007/">thousands</a> of deportations.
The decision comes after the Trump administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-deports-murderers-and-rapists-to-south-sudan-but-judge-might-order-their-return-to-u-s">deported</a> eight violent criminal illegal aliens, including Cuban and Vietnamese nationals, to South Sudan after the African nation agreed to accept them. The illegal aliens’ home nations were not willing to accept the criminals, whose crimes include homicide, kidnapping, and the sexual assault of children.
The deportation flight was quickly challenged in court, with one federal judge ruling that the Trump administration must maintain custody of the criminal illegal aliens in case their deportation to the African nation was found to be unlawful, also stating that illegal aliens must be given the opportunity to contest their removal to third countries.
The Trump administration called on the Supreme Court to weigh in on the case, while Solicitor General John Sauer asserted that the federal ruling exacerbated the illegal immigration crisis.
&#8220;The United States is facing a crisis of illegal immigration, in no small part because many aliens most deserving of removal are often the hardest to remove,&#8221; Sauer wrote in the appeal.
The ruling could also allow the Trump administration to deport one illegal alien, a convicted murderer named Alexander Alfredo Palacios Guevara, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-era-decision-could-block-trump-admins-attempt-to-deport-convicted-murderer-to-home-country?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Biden-Era+Decision+Could+Block+Trump+Admin%E2%80%99s+Attempt+To+Deport+Convicted+Murderer+To+Home+Country">received</a> a special deportation protection preventing him from being sent back to his country of origin. The Salvadoran national, who also has a conviction for sexual abuse and is believed to be a member of the Surenos gang, is expected to be deported to a willing third country.

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U.S. Border Patrol agents found and shut down a massive tunnel linking Tijuana, Mexico, to San Diego, California, built to unlawfully smuggle narcotics into the United States.
The tunnel spanned nearly 3,000 feet, extending more than 1,000 feet into the United States, with a projected exit point near a warehouse in San Diego, California. It featured a sophisticated ventilation system, electrical wiring, lighting, and a rail track for transporting drugs. In February, the Trump administration designated six Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
“As we continue to strengthen the nation’s air, and maritime border security, it’s not surprising that foreign terrorist organizations would resort to underground routes,” <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/san-diego-sector-border-patrol-uncovers-sophisticated-cross-border">said</a> Jeffrey D. Stalnaker, the Acting Chief Patrol Agent of the San Diego Sector. “Disruption of narcotics smuggling tunnels is critical to protecting American lives.”
Federal authorities first discovered the tunnel while it was under construction in April, sending the San Diego Border Patrol Sector Tunnel Team in to investigate the project. Those agents, Border Patrol says, encountered various barricades that “were placed haphazardly by the tunnel workers” in an effort to prevent law enforcement from investigating the passageway into America.
Mexican authorities also investigated the tunnel and discovered the origin point in a residence in Tijuana.
“I’m grateful for the exceptional work of the Tunnel Team agents who placed themselves in danger, as well as the cooperation of our Mexican law enforcement partners,” Stalnaker said.
The tunnel will now be filled with thousands of gallons of concrete to prevent it from being used by drug smugglers. Mexican cartels have carved tunnels into the United States for decades. Nearly 100 tunnels have been discovered and obstructed since 1993 in the San Diego area alone.
The detection of the tunnel comes as the Trump administration has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/zero-illegal-aliens-released-into-u-s-in-may-by-customs-and-border-protection?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Zero+Illegal+Aliens+Released+Into+U.S.+In+May+By+Customs+And+Border+Protection">drastically reduced</a> the number of illegal border crossings and placed financial pressure on the cartels. The Treasury Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/treasury-dept-sanctions-five-key-leaders-of-mexican-drug-cartel?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Treasury+Dept+Sanctions+Five+Key+Leaders+Of+Mexican+Drug+Cartel">unveiled sanctions</a> against five leaders of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion on Wednesday. The move came after the federal agency announced sanctions on leaders of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-treasury-dept-launches-sanctions-targeting-sinaloa-cartel">Sinaloa Cartel</a> and the <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0146">Cartel del Noreste</a>.

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The Trump administration’s Department of the Treasury on Wednesday announced sanctions on leaders of a ruthless Mexican drug cartel in a move that the federal agency says will hinder the organization’s drug trafficking operations.
The sanctions targeted five key figures of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG), a vicious criminal enterprise that produces illicit drugs and traffics them into the United States.
“CJNG’s reign of terror across Mexico and its trafficking of fentanyl into the United States has destroyed countless innocent lives,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0169">said</a>. “The United States remains strongly committed to leveraging all available tools to degrade the capacity of CJNG and other cartels to flood our streets with dangerous drugs and perpetrate heinous acts of violence against civilians.”
Any property held by the five cartel members in the United States will now be frozen and reported to the federal government.
The Treasury Department described the organization as “a brutally violent cartel responsible for a significant share of fentanyl and other illicit drugs entering the United States,” adding, “It uses murder as a tactic to intimidate rivals, including sending messages to other cartels through the targeted killings of women.”
CJNG’s founder and leader, Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” was among the five men targeted.
“Under Oseguera’s direction, CJNG operatives have assassinated rivals, Mexican law enforcement, judges, and other government officials,” the Treasury Department noted, also pointing out that Oseguera’s leadership allowed the cartel to “function like a franchise business across several Mexican states,” allowing the criminal enterprise to spread across the country and rake in billions of dollars from the drug trade.
The Treasury also sanctioned Julio Alberto Castillo Rodriguez, who it identified as a senior CJNG member and the son-in-law of Oseguera. Castillo, believed to be a possible successor to Oseguera, operates a port in southwestern Mexico that the cartel uses to import fentanyl precursors.
Another target, Gonzalo Mendoza Gaytan, is known to recruit new CJNG members and train them at Izaguirre Ranch, a facility in the Mexican state of Jalisco, according to the Trump administration. Mendoza “directed lieutenants to train new CJNG recruits and kill those who defied instructions” and “has also been involved in the murder of numerous law enforcement officers,” the Treasury Department said.
The Treasury hit two more CJNG operatives, Audias Flores Silva and Ricardo Ruiz Velasco, with sanctions. Flores is a regional CJNG commander over several Mexican states and oversees laboratories that produce methamphetamine, while Ruiz runs the CJNG’s propaganda wing. Ruiz is also believed to have killed his girlfriend during a live social media broadcast.
The flurry of sanctions comes after the Treasury Department previously unveiled similar sanctions against members of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-treasury-dept-launches-sanctions-targeting-sinaloa-cartel">Sinaloa Cartel</a> and <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0146">Cartel de Noreste</a>. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Michael Faulkender told The Daily Wire in an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-treasury-official-reveals-how-the-trump-admin-is-choking-off-cartels-cash-flow?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=28&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Treasury+Official+Lays+Out+How+Trump+Is+Choking+Off+Cash+Flow+To+Cartels">exclusive interview</a> that the sanctions are a key tool in the Trump administration’s fight against the Mexican drug cartels.
“If the money is not flowing back south, then there’s less of an incentive to bring the drugs and the guns and some of the illicit activity up to the north,” he explained.

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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) did not release a single illegal alien into the United States during the month of May, a new report from the federal immigration enforcement agency revealed.
The figure lies in sharp contrast to May of 2024 under the Biden administration, when approximately 62,000 illegal aliens were released into the United States.
CBP agents encountered just 8,725 illegal aliens attempting to enter the United States between ports of entry last month. The number marks a whopping 93 percent decline since last May, when immigration enforcement authorities encountered more than 117,000 illegal aliens between ports of entry on the southwestern border.
Acting Commissioner of CBP Pete Flores <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-may-2025-monthly-update">touted the success</a>, highlighting the work of the Trump administration.
“Under the leadership of this administration, CBP has received historic support resulting in another 93% decrease in illegal crossings along the southwest border this month when compared with last year,” Flores said. “Border numbers continue to trend at historic lows, reinforcing the sustained success of our enforcement efforts in securing the homeland and protecting American communities.”
“This administration has seen the fastest improvement in American border security of all time,” Customs and Border Protection posted on X.
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Thanks to the tireless efforts and diligent work of the men and women of CBP and the leadership of <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Sec_Noem?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Sec_Noem</a>, USBP released 0 (not a single one) illegal aliens into our country in May, down from more than 62,000 in May of last year.
This administration has seen the…
— CBP (@CBP) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBP/status/1935033738087268657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
CBP agents also seized hundreds of pounds of deadly drugs, including 718 pounds of fentanyl. The law enforcement agency noted that cocaine seizures jumped by 19 percent from April to May, while heroin seizures surged 191 percent during the same period of time.
Border numbers began to plummet almost immediately upon President Donald Trump taking office at the start of this year. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-crossings-plunge-90-to-historic-lows-under-trump-crackdown">Data</a> from the first weeks in February revealed that border crossings had already dropped 90 percent in the first few weeks of the new presidency.
“​We haven’t had numbers this low since the 1960s,” Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, remarked at the time.
The decrease in illegal border crossings proved to be even more drastic than the early data suggested, with Vice President JD Vance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vance-does-victory-lap-at-border-all-it-took-was-a-new-president">celebrating</a> a 98 percent reduction in illegal immigration during a visit to the border in early March.

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White House Border Czar Tom Homan this week tapped an immigration expert, border reporter, and former Texas intelligence official to help enforce immigration law and deport illegals.
Todd Bensman joined the Trump administration Monday as a Senior Advisor to Border Czar Tom Homan. Bensman entered his new role after more than six years at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
“There’s a new administration in town that seems to have won the election on this issue and, at least according to the polls, the border crisis was an apex issue up there with inflation and the economy,” Bensman said while <a href="https://cis.org/Parsing-Immigration-Policy/Todd-Bensman-Exit-Interview">discussing</a> his new role in his final podcast interview with CIS. “They made promises and those promises are being kept.”
Before joining the Trump administration, Bensman was also a frequent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/todd-bensman">contributor</a> to The Daily Wire, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/un-non-profits-pave-the-way-for-permanent-mass-migration?author=Todd+Bensman&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=8&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=UN+Non-Profits+Pave+The+Way+For+Permanent+Mass+Migration">detailing</a> the role of non-profits in pushing mass immigration and sharing his insights from his travels to the southern border and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-harris-mass-migration-is-killing-all-the-indians-in-panama?author=Todd+Bensman&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=9&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Biden-Harris+Mass+Migration+Is+%E2%80%98Killing+All+The+Indians%E2%80%99+In+Panama">Darien Gap</a>, the narrow land bridge that connects South America and Central America.
Bensman’s reporting pulled from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-trump-effect-2-0-illegal-border-crossings-set-to-plummet-on-one-condition?author=Todd+Bensman&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=7&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=The+%E2%80%98Trump+Effect%E2%80%99+2.0%3A+Illegal+Border+Crossings+Set+To+Plummet%2C+On+One+Condition">interviews</a> with would-be illegal aliens as they opined on the political state of the United States, explaining before the 2024 election that they would abandon their plans to enter the country if President Donald Trump beat then-Vice President Kamala Harris.
Bensman offered his expertise to Congress last year when he <a href="https://www.toddbensman.com/the-hero-texas-cop-who-killed-the-two-garland-isis-terrorists/">testified</a> on the security implications of the unprecedented rise of Chinese nationals encountered at the southern border under the Biden administration, <a href="https://cis.org/Testimony/Security-Risk-Unprecedented-Surge-Chinese-Illegal-Immigration">warning</a> that the Chinese government likely saw the border as “a new, wide-open avenue of approach through which to infiltrate its spies and intelligence operatives.”
Bensman was one of the first people to warn of the growth of Colony Ridge, the sprawling Texas land development that became a magnet for illegal aliens and attracted wanted murderers, drug runners, and cartel members.
“When people buy here, they’re buying peace of mind from law enforcement,” Bensman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-colony-ridge-the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants">said</a> of those who purchase land in Colony Ridge while speaking with The Daily Wire in September 2023. “The Mexican cartels are very active in that they run safe houses, they run drugs, they do marijuana grows, they commit crimes,” he explained in a chapter of his <a href="https://www.toddbensman.com/overrun-book/">book</a> dedicated to the Texas development.
The Daily Wire exposed Colony Ridge in a series of investigations, and the development was later hit with lawsuits from the Texas Attorney General and the Department of Justice. The development was also the target of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deportation-operations-launched-in-colony-ridge-targeting-criminals-and-illegal-immigrants">multiple</a> deportation operations earlier this year, which resulted in the capture of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nearly-100-illegals-captured-in-colony-ridge-deportation-raids">nearly 120 illegal aliens</a>, including a previously deported MS-13 gang member and those suspected of homicide and child sexual abuse.
Before joining CIS, Bensman <a href="https://cis.org/Bensman">led</a> the Texas Department of Public Safety&#8217;s Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division, managing teams of intelligence analysts and working with the FBI and other federal partners to identify terror threats. Bensman took on a specialized effort while in that role, investigating the human smuggling of migrants into the United States from nations with active Islamic terror groups.

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WASHINGTON—A nationally recognized crime analyst says 2025 may see the lowest murder rate ever recorded, and the White House is touting the news as evidence of President Donald Trump&#8217;s tough-on-crime policies.
“Since President Trump took office, murder rates have plummeted across the entire United States,&#8221; White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Tuesday morning.
&#8220;American families were promised their communities would be safer and President Trump swiftly delivered by vocally being tough on crime, unequivocally backing law enforcement, and standing firm on violent criminals being held to the fullest extent of the law,&#8221; she added.
Her remarks come after analyst Jeff Asher, <a href="https://www.ahdatalytics.com/about-us/">co-founder</a> of AH Datalytics, <a href="https://jasher.substack.com/p/how-2025-could-feature-the-lowest">found more than</a> a 20% decrease in murders from 2024, including murders down 31.6% in Baltimore, 34.5% in St. Louis, 36.8% in Cleveland, 63% in Denver, 30.6% in New Orleans, 26.8% in New York, and 23.7% in Chicago.
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Asher hedges that the trend could &#8220;regress back towards a more normal rate of decline,&#8221; but he still argues that &#8220;it’s fairly clear that a decline in the direction we’re currently seeing would safely give 2025 the title of lowest US murder rate ever recorded.&#8221;
Rafael Mangual, a Manhattan Institute fellow and member of the Council on Criminal Justice, told The Daily Wire that there are a number of factors behind the drop in homicides, including &#8220;depopulation in urban America, more police activity across the country, an increase in the incarceration rate over the last couple of years, as well as the fact that, the homicide spikes and shooting spikes took a lot of would-be shooters off the street permanently.&#8221; 
Homicide rates in the United States rose in 2020, peaked in 2021, and have steadily fallen since.
Trump has made fighting crime a major goal of his second term, particularly in Washington, D.C. Violent crime rose 33% in the nation&#8217;s capital in 2023, making it Washington&#8217;s <a href="https://thespectator.com/topic/donald-trump-move-fast-break-things-tactic-washington-dc-safer/">deadliest year</a> in two decades. Violent crime <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/violent-crime-dc-hits-30-year-low">dropped</a> 35% between 2023 and 2024, likely the result of the appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia deciding to ramp up prosecutions towards the end of his term.
On the campaign trail, Trump said he would &#8220;take over our horribly run” capital, a promise he delivered on in March, when he signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/making-the-district-of-columbia-safe-and-beautiful/">executive order</a> creating the “D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force.&#8221; The task force is directed to combat crime and restore public order by clearing homeless encampments and cracking down on lower-level offenses like turnstile jumping and public urination.
But Trump&#8217;s efforts to restore public order have gone beyond Washington, as well. His administration&#8217;s crackdown on illegal crossings at the southern border has led to the largest <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-make-largest-fentanyl-bust-in-history-arrest-illegal-alien-with-ties-to-deadly-cartel?author=Spencer+Lindquist+and+Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Feds+Make+Largest+Fentanyl+Bust+In+History%2C+Arrest+Illegal+Alien+With+Ties+To+Deadly+Cartel">fentanyl bust</a> in history, and his Treasury Department has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-treasury-dept-launches-sanctions-targeting-sinaloa-cartel?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump%E2%80%99s+Treasury+Dept+Launches+Sanctions+Targeting+Sinaloa+Cartel">issued sanctions</a> against the notorious Sinaloa Cartel in an effort to disrupt their operations.
Late last month, The Washington Post reported on &#8220;The mysterious drop in fentanyl seizures on the U.S.-Mexico border,&#8221; quickly drawing criticism from Republicans. On X, Texas Rep. Troy Nehls wrote that there was &#8220;nothing &#8216;mysterious&#8217; about the drop in fentanyl seizures at the southern border,&#8221; noting that &#8220;President Trump’s America First border security policies are working.&#8221;
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Let me be clear:
There’s nothing “mysterious” about the drop in fentanyl seizures at the southern border.
President Trump’s America First border security policies are working. <a href="https://t.co/w8jkLfqQli">pic.twitter.com/w8jkLfqQli</a>
— Congressman Troy E. Nehls (@RepTroyNehls) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepTroyNehls/status/1929707387596034132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Department of Homeland Security also weighed in on X, saying, &#8220;It’s no mystery. On day one, @POTUS Trump closed our borders to drug traffickers. From March 2024 to March 2025 fentanyl traffic at the southern border fell by 54%.&#8221;
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It’s no mystery. On day one, <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> Trump closed our borders to drug traffickers. From March 2024 to March 2025 fentanyl traffic at the southern border fell by 54%.
The world has heard the message loud and clear. <a href="https://t.co/7RJVY8ISwS">pic.twitter.com/7RJVY8ISwS</a>
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/1929357886448091400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Fentanyl killed over <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2025/20250514.htm">48,000 Americans</a> in 2024, according to the CDC.

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After decades of mass illegal immigration into the United States, untold millions of illegal aliens have settled throughout the country, competing with Americans for government benefits, jobs, and now, for homes.
For most illegal aliens, obtaining a mortgage from a traditional bank — without a social security number or a credit score — is nearly impossible. But as millions of illegal aliens flooded the country, a new industry has cropped up to capitalize on the new customer base, selling financing catered to the illegal population.
One entity at the forefront of this industry, a Daily Wire investigation has revealed, is Prysma Lending, which has given out more than a <a href="https://prysma.com/about-us">billion dollars</a> in loans in red and blue states alike as it blatantly targets illegal aliens.
Trump pledged to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/business/undocumented-immigrants-trump-mortgage-ban/index.html">ban mortgages for illegal aliens</a> on the campaign trail and his administration <a href="https://www.hud.gov/news/hud-no-25-048">took action</a> in March to prevent government-backed mortgages from going to illegal aliens. But Prysma is one of several companies — including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-colony-ridge-the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants">Colony Ridge</a>, the Texas development that The Daily Wire exposed as a magnet for illegal aliens — that uses a different financial tactic that isn’t impacted by the administration’s recent rule change, which specifically targeted loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration.
The company prides itself on “empowering the Latino community to achieve homeownership” in its Spanish-language <a href="https://www.instagram.com/prysma_lending_group/">Instagram bio.</a> The company’s president, Monica Serva, <a href="https://prysma.com/about-us">says</a> she started Prysma with the intent of “helping the Latino community” because she “realized how unfairly minorities were treated.”
But Prysma revealed that its business model relied on illegal aliens, in particular, when it hosted a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHQX1LczTk4&amp;t=30s">webinar</a> with an immigration lawyer to answer their customers&#8217; questions about the risk of deportation in the days following President Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration.
The company is evidently concerned that its clientele could be deported, or at least that potential customers could be dissuaded from buying a home in a country that they fear they could be removed from.
They have reason to be worried. The Connecticut-based company’s website is checkered with explicit appeals to illegal aliens, allowing it to corner a market that doesn’t have access to the same financial tools as American citizens and legal residents.
“Prysma has helped non-US citizen families in: Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas,” the corporation’s site reads. “No Social Security or Green Card required.”
“You have a right to homeownership, regardless of legal status,” Prysma says. The company even published guides on “<a href="https://prysma.com/blog/personal-loans-for-undocumented-immigrants-options-available">loans for undocumented immigrants</a>” and boasts that it has “extensive experience with loans tailored to the unique needs of undocumented immigrants.”
“Securing personal loans can be a crucial step toward financial independence for undocumented immigrants, who often face challenges accessing traditional financial products,” Prysma writes. 
Federation for American Immigration Reform Media Director Ira Mehlman told The Daily Wire that allowing illegal aliens to access mortgages could incentivize them to remain in the country, but that Congress could take action. 
“Access to mortgages can serve as an incentive for illegal aliens to remain in the country, especially at a time when the goal of the government is convincing illegal aliens to leave,” Mehlman explained. Congress could take many actions &#8211; from disclosure to outright prohibition &#8211; and set a national standard for states to follow.”
A Prysma employee admitted in the post-election <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHQX1LczTk4&amp;t=30s">webinar</a> that the company specializes in offering loans to illegal aliens.
“At Prysma, again we’re super honored that Latinos come to us &#8230; well, people from all different parts of the world, looking for loans that don’t require a legal status,” Senior Mortgage Loan Originator Stefany Pina said.
The corporation made a guide to go along with the talk, providing “actionable steps to safeguard the things that matter to you most should you or a family member be at risk of deportation.” The document tells customers how to trigger a “credible fear” interview to avoid deportation, adding that “the interview process can slow deportation proceedings, giving you time to build a legal defense.”
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Prysma also instructs illegal aliens to avoid presenting “IDs that could flag you for deportation,” including foreign passports.
Prysma’s business model <a href="https://prysma.com/tax-id-loans">appears to rely</a> on the individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN), a tax processing number from the IRS that can be obtained by anyone regardless of their immigration status. The National Immigration Law Center, a left-wing Soros-backed organization, <a href="https://www.nilc.org/resources/itinfaq/">calls ITINs</a> “a powerful tool for immigrant taxpayers.” Illegal aliens can use ITINs to receive home and personal loans, often at rates significantly higher than those offered by traditional banks.
Obtaining an ITIN, Prysma is eager to point out, does not require a legal status. “Your ITIN allows you to take out a Tax ID loan … without showing legal residency in the U.S.” The company says, also adding “no social security card needed&#8221; and &#8220;no green card needed.&#8221;
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The IRS <a href="https://www.irs.gov/tin/itin/individual-taxpayer-identification-number-itin#what">created</a> ITINs so nonresidents could pay taxes. They were not intended to be used by illegal aliens to obtain mortgages or other loans.
This ITIN financial scheme is the same system that fueled the astronomical growth of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-colony-ridge-the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants">Colony Ridge</a>, the Texas development that The Daily Wire exposed as a magnet for illegal aliens. The site, which has attracted illegal alien murderers, drug-runners, human smugglers, and cartel members, similarly told buyers that they didn’t need social security numbers and instead doled out ITIN loans to illegal aliens.
Leaked emails from a Texas land developer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-developer-admits-colony-ridge-relies-on-subprime-lending-to-non-citizen-buyers">uncovered</a> by The Daily Wire indicate that there appears to be an entire industry built around supplying loans to illegal aliens. The developer, who formerly led a lobbying organization, wrote that “we will not be able to sell our developments if each of our buyers have to have [social security numbers].”
Prysma did not respond to a request for comment.

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The Trump administration has tapped the Treasury Department to track down and halt the flow of money to foreign drug cartels.
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Michael Faulkender says the federal agency is choking off the cash flow that powers cartels’ human and drug smuggling operations by designating them as terrorists, he explained to The Daily Wire.
“One of the most important things that the president did upon coming into office was to declare a number of the narco groups terrorist organizations,&#8221; Faulkender told The Daily Wire. &#8220;What that does is it unleashes additional authorities at Treasury for us to better target some of the financial activities that these cartels are engaging in.&#8221;
Faulkender told The Daily Wire that the agency’s moves are cutting into the cartels’ flow of money, disincentivizing their human smuggling and drug-running operations.
“It&#8217;s one thing to have our partners at [the Department of Homeland Security] work on stopping the flow of people and drugs, but we can also use our financial tools to go after the money,” the Treasury official explained. “If the money is not flowing back south, then there&#8217;s less of an incentive to bring the drugs and the guns and some of the illicit activity up to the north.”
“Since the president took office, we&#8217;ve engaged in five different actions going after nine different entities for a total of 16 individuals,” he noted.
The Treasury Department unveiled sanctions on “two high-ranking members of the Mexico-based Cartel del Noreste,” a foreign terrorist organization formerly known as Los Zetas.
Cartel del Noreste “and its leaders have carried out a violent campaign of intimidation, kidnapping, and terrorism, threatening communities on both sides of our southern border,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent charged. “We will continue to cut off the cartels’ ability to obtain the drugs, money, and guns that enable their violent activities.”
That move follows the Treasury Department&#8217;s March announcement that it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-treasury-dept-launches-sanctions-targeting-sinaloa-cartel">imposing sanctions</a> on six individuals and seven organizations believed to be laundering money for the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the world’s most notorious criminal organizations and a federally-designated foreign terror organization.
“We leveled sanctions against six individuals and seven entities involved in a money laundering operation, cutting off financing for these evil people,” Bessent said at the time. “Laundered drug money is the lifeblood of the Sinaloa Cartel’s narco-terrorist enterprise, only made possible through trusted financial facilitators like those we have designated today.”
Treasury also hit Brink’s Global Services, which specializes in transporting funds and other valuables for banks and other clients, with a <a href="https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-announces-37000000-civil-money-penalty-against-brinks-global-services-usa">$37 million civil penalty</a>, alleging that the company moved money across the southern border without following anti-money laundering regulations. The company’s violations, the Treasury Department says, exposed “the U.S. financial system to a heightened risk of money laundering, including from narcotics trafficking and other illicit activity.”
Faulkender says the Trump administration isn’t just launching a whole-of-government approach to combat the cartels’ drug and human smuggling, but is also pushing the Mexican government to track and penalize the flow of cartel money.
“The president imposed tariffs on the Mexican government and on products that are coming in from Mexico to elicit participation and cooperation from the Mexican government, and so we are seeing the Mexican government willing to work with us to go after these financial networks that are enriching the cartels,” he told The Daily Wire, adding that the government is “monitoring the money flows, tracking it down, either putting a complete stop to it and, and seizing that money, or at the very least, making it a lot more expensive for them to move that money around and try to deter them from engaging in these kinds of actions.”

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A union representing nearly 20,000 Border Patrol agents on Monday declared its support for President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;big, beautiful bill,&#8221; hailing the legislation as an “investment” in America’s border security.
“The men and women of the National Border Patrol Council are proud to announce our support for the House One Big Beautiful Bill,” the group&#8217;s president, Paul Perez, told The Daily Wire. “This legislation provides a once in a generation investment in the border security of our great country and will make America safer.”
The legislation not only modifies the tax code, but also provides funding that would allow Customs and Border Protection to expand its operations.
“This legislation provides for thousands of new patrol vehicles, the hiring of thousands of additional Border Patrol Agents, and improves retention and recruitment by using incentives and protecting benefits, along with unprecedented investments in physical infrastructure, such as roads along our borders,” Perez added. “The NBPC has no doubt this legislation will greatly help us to do our jobs more safely and effectively.”
Funding for physical infrastructure, the Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee say, would <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/2025/04/27/house-homeland-security-committee-releases-text-for-budget-reconciliation-recommendations/">support</a> the construction of “701 miles of primary wall, construction of 900 miles of river barriers, 629 miles of secondary barriers, and replacement of 141 miles of vehicle and pedestrian barriers.”
The White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/one-big-beautiful-bill-is-a-once-in-a-generation-chance/">adds</a> that the funding will support “at least one million annual removals” of illegal aliens and the hiring of 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel.
The House Judiciary Committee <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/big-beautiful-border-security">says</a> the funding would allow ICE to expand its capacity and allow it to detain 100,000 illegal aliens at any given time.
Beyond funding Border Patrol, ICE, and border wall construction, the legislation also takes other steps to discourage illegal immigration. If passed, the bill would impose a 5% tax on money sent out of the country by illegal aliens and non-citizens.
Experts told The Daily Wire that the tax on such transactions would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-new-tax-on-money-sent-abroad-could-dry-up-drug-cartel-cash-and-penalize-illegal-immigration?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=This+New+Tax+Could+Stop+Illegal+Immigration+And+Keep+Money+From+Cartels">penalize</a> illegal immigration and cut into the cash flows that are sent to the Mexican drug cartels.
“Placing a fee on remittances is crucial because the more money that is smuggled back into Mexico, the stronger the cartels become,” Ira Mehlman, the Media Director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, told The Daily Wire.
Trump’s bill would also kick an estimated 1.4 million illegal aliens off of Medicaid, the government-funded healthcare program. The legislation, the Trump White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/one-big-beautiful-bill-is-a-once-in-a-generation-chance/">says</a>, “eliminates waste, fraud, and abuse by ending benefits” for illegal aliens “who are gaming the system.”

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