Border czar Tom Homan pulled no punches in his brutal roast of former President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden, referring to him as the &#8220;former First Drug Addict&#8221; during a recent appearance on &#8220;The Ingraham Angle&#8221; on Fox News.
Homan, a longtime Border Patrol officer who was named border czar by President Donald Trump, joined host Laura Ingraham to share his reaction to a recent Hunter Biden interview. During that interview, an emotional Hunter Biden had lashed out at President Trump&#8217;s border policies and suggested that all illegal immigrants in the United States should simply be allowed to remain. Homan disagreed.
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🚨 LMAO! Tom Homan just ROASTED Hunter Biden after Hunter said &#8220;f— you&#8221; to those who want immigration laws enforced.
&#8220;You know, I don&#8217;t really care what the former First Drug Addict thinks!&#8221; 🤣🔥
Homan is a national treasure. <a href="https://t.co/Okq5XsPGjF">pic.twitter.com/Okq5XsPGjF</a>
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&#8220;I&#8217;ve got to get your reaction, Tom, to one of your old friends who had a message for Americans who care about illegal immigration,&#8221; Ingraham teased the clip of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-defends-illegals-with-slew-of-f-bombs">younger Biden</a>.
&#8220;People are really upset about illegal immigration. F*** you. How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you think you have food on your f***ing table? Who do you think washes your dishes?” he asked in the clip.
&#8220;Well, I do my own dishes,&#8221; Ingraham said as she cut away from the Biden interview. &#8220;But this idea that the fruit&#8217;s going to rot in the orchards, nobody&#8217;s ever going to have a lawn mowed again if we actually enforce our immigration laws &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I don&#8217;t really care what the former First Drug Addict thinks,&#8221; Homan shot back. &#8220;I just thank God every morning I wake up, and we&#8217;ve got President Trump in the Oval Office. And because of President Trump, in seven weeks, we got the most secure border in this nation&#8217;s history. And now we&#8217;re arresting public safety threats and national security every day across this country.&#8221;

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Tom Homan Delivers Brutal Roast Of ‘Former First Drug Addict’ Hunter Biden

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WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump signed a bipartisan bill Wednesday aimed at ending the fentanyl drug crisis while surrounded by mothers and fathers of young people who lost their lives to the deadly drug.
&#8220;We&#8217;ll be getting the drug dealers, pushers, and peddlers off our street, and we will not rest until we have ended the drug overdose epidemic,&#8221; he promised attendees in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday afternoon. Trump promised that the legislation would take &#8220;a historic step toward justice for every family touched by the fentanyl scourge.&#8221;
The HALT Fentanyl Act permanently schedules fentanyl-related substances as &#8220;Fentanyl Analogs,&#8221; a classification that would expire at the end of the month without the new legislation. An analog is a copycat fentanyl that has been chemically changed just enough to skirt the law, but is just as deadly. The White House argues it must be prosecuted in the same way.
<div id="attachment_948077" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/surrounded-by-angel-parents-trump-signs-bill-aimed-at-ending-fentanyl-drug-crisis/president-trump-holds-bill-signing-ceremony-at-the-white-house-5" rel="attachment wp-att-948077"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-948077" class="wp-image-948077 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2225436610-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2225436610-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2225436610-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2225436610-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2225436610.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Greg Swan, whose son Drew died as a result of a fentanyl-related substance, looks on as Trump speaks during the bill signing (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)</div>
<p class="paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmd5yzrwf000c3b6ned8ypatf@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true" data-analytics-observe="off">&#8220;Under the HALT Fentanyl Act, anyone who possesses, imports, distributes, or manufactures any illicit FRS (fentanyl-related substances) will be subject to criminal prosecution in the same manner as any other Schedule I controlled substance,&#8221; reads a White House document shared with The Daily Wire.
<p class="paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmd5yzrwf000d3b6nw7knhfd3@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true" data-analytics-observe="off">&#8220;First, we close the loopholes criminals use to skirt around the law,&#8221; the document notes. &#8220;Second, we make it easier for law enforcement to prosecute those criminals.&#8221;
The new legislation amends the Controlled Substances Act to permanently classify these illicit fentanyl knockoffs as Schedule 1. And it fulfills some key campaign promises of Trump, who has heavily messaged to his supporters that he will rein in the fentanyl crisis.
&#8220;For four years, Joe Biden and Democrats hardly muttered a word about the fentanyl crisis, which remains the number one leading cause of death in our country,&#8221; White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared in a statement ahead of the signing. &#8220;President Trump has made securing the border and ending the drug crisis a top priority, and today, he will further follow through on his commitment to the courageous fentanyl moms and dads who elected him to Make America Safe Again.&#8221;
A number of top Trump supporters who have been aggressive on border policy were also present at the event: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, Fox News contributor Sara Carter, U.S. Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and Senator Jim Banks of Indiana filled the first few rows and were named by the president.
House Speaker Mike Johnson arrived slightly late to the bill signing and quietly slid into a seat in the back, where a delighted mother and son duo were quick to take photos with him.
The president invited several of the angel parents in attendance to speak at the podium. One father, whose son Drew was tragically killed by fentanyl, told Trump on Wednesday afternoon: &#8220;Thank you, Mr. President, for stopping the border crossings. Full stop.&#8221;
&#8220;We were being gaslit,&#8221; he added, &#8220;and you came and lit a fire to that story, and we&#8217;re a lot safer for it.

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Recently released memos from former Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s 2024 presidential campaign reveal the Democrat&#8217;s public relations struggles in the waning days of her failed White House bid.
The memos — first reported by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf in the forthcoming book &#8220;2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Left Lost America&#8221; — were written by Maria Comella, a PR consultant who also <a href="https://www.comella.co/contact" target="_blank" rel="noopener">served as</a> chief strategist for Chris Christie&#8217;s 2024 presidential campaign.
In multiple instances, Comella <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000197-e956-d05a-afb7-ed5645b00000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urged</a> Harris to &#8220;Call out the Democratic Party for missing the mark on public safety in US cities.&#8221; The memo notes that Harris should demonstrate her willingness to criticize Democrats on top of &#8220;Trump&#8217;s chaos.&#8221;
The memo also urges Harris to appear on Joe Rogan&#8217;s podcast, noting that the host &#8220;will be looking for authenticity and it&#8217;s an opportunity to differentiate in style. Be honest about mistakes. There is a natural leadership contrast with Trump who can never admit when he is wrong.&#8221;
President Donald Trump joined Rogan&#8217;s show in late October, after which Rogan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-rogan-endorses-trump-for-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed.</a> In response, Harris&#8217;s campaign <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-rogan-says-harris-campaign-lied-about-her-failed-appearance-on-his-show-brings-receipts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complained</a> that Rogan misled them in a malicious attempt to sabotage her presidential run.
Rogan retorted that the Harris campaign &#8220;never agreed to do the show. None of that&#8217;s true … They also said that they sent someone down here to the studio to do a walk-through of the set. That&#8217;s not true.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000197-e958-da98-a3b7-f95a2eec0000">memo</a> lists former The View cohost Meredith Vieira and sports podcaster Bill Simmons as alternatives to Rogan. Harris never joined Rogan, Vieira, or Simmons, but did make an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-blasted-for-going-on-explicit-call-her-daddy-podcast-as-americans-are-dying" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appearance</a> on the explicit podcast &#8220;Call Her Daddy.&#8221;
In accompanying memos published in the same book, Harris was urged to distance herself from then-President Joe Biden, who had only recently dropped out of the race.
Referring to the Biden administration&#8217;s disastrous border policies, the <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000197-e958-de82-a7d7-ff5cedae0000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> told Harris not to &#8220;waste time defending what has happened. Acknowledge the mistake, define the problem and how we have to act moving forward.&#8221;
&#8220;It turns out it is okay to acknowledge mistakes and failures– particularly if it shows voters where the Vice President is different from President Biden,&#8221; the memo reads.
Harris infamously refused to critique Biden&#8217;s handling of the border in a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview, during which she was asked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-repeatedly-refuses-to-say-it-was-a-mistake-to-allow-illegal-aliens-to-flood-into-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">repeatedly</a> about the issue. Instead, she blamed the massive influx of illegal aliens on Congress.
The memos also mention issues with vocal Trump opponents, including former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY).
&#8220;In many instances, the voices who are willing to speak out publicly in support of Vice President Harris are imperfect messengers who are viewed with a skeptical eye by the audiences you still need to persuade,&#8221; the memo reads.
The book in which these memos were published also <a href="https://www.politico.com/playbook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">details</a> how Harris was urged to steer away from using the events of Jan. 6th as the crux of her argument in a late October <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-speech-ellipse-donald-trump-2024-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> in Washington, D.C.
Instead, Harris concluded her speech  by saying Trump &#8220;is the person who stood at this very spot nearly four years ago and sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol to overturn the will of the people in a free and fair election, an election that he knew he lost.&#8221;

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On Sunday, Trump border czar Tom Homan condemned Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) for making a taxpayer funded trip to El Salvador to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant who was deported from the United States last month.
Homan redirected a question from ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; by anchor Jonathan Karl when pressed about Abrego Garcia, who has been imprisoned in El Salvador, his home country. Abrego Garcia&#8217;s legal team has been <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69777799/1/abrego-garcia-v-noem/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fighting</a> the federal government in a high-profile court to secure his return to the United States. Van Hollen, who claims Abrego Garcia is a Maryland “constituent” who endured an &#8220;abduction and unlawful deportation,&#8221; met the man on Thursday.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RealTomHoman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealTomHoman</a> : &quot;A U.S. senator traveled to El Salvador on taxpayers&#39; dime to meet with a MS-13 gang member &#8230; How many Angel Moms and Dads has he met in the state of Maryland?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/dkpuxWGIMn">pic.twitter.com/dkpuxWGIMn</a>
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&#8220;Sen. Van Hollen is — obviously got a chance to meet with [Abrego Garcia], but he had to travel to El Salvador to get any information. Is (sic) that concern you at all? I mean, these are people sent by — I mean, in his case, sent by the United States, and not even a U.S. senator could get any information about his whereabouts, or the condition of his incarceration, without actually going down and making the trip to El Salvador himself?&#8221; Karl asked.
&#8220;Well, he obviously knew his whereabouts, because he went there to see him. But you know, what bothers me more than that is a U.S. senator traveled to El Salvador on taxpayer dime to meet with an MS-13 gang member, public safety threat, terrorist. I mean, in the meantime, the day before he traveled, an illegal alien was arrested for murder, was released to the streets rather than honoring an ICE detainer in his very own state,&#8221; Homan retorted.
The Trump administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/facilitate-not-effectuate-wh-responds-to-scotus-ruling-on-mistakenly-deported-salvadoran" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accuses</a> Abrego Garcia of being a member of MS-13, which has been <a href="https://www.state.gov/designation-of-international-cartels/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">designated</a> as a foreign terror organization, and has released <a href="https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1396906/dl?inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senator-van-hollen-did-not-ask-deported-illegal-immigrant-ms-13" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photo</a> evidence to substantiate the affiliation. Abrego Garcia&#8217;s attorneys <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69777799/1/abrego-garcia-v-noem/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deny</a> the claim.
On CNN, Van Hollen <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senator-van-hollen-did-not-ask-deported-illegal-immigrant-ms-13" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dared</a> the Trump administration to bring up the gang affiliation claim in Abrego Garcia’s ongoing deportation case. The senator also <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1913954303418474622" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conceded</a> during an interview on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; that his trip to El Salvador was funded by taxpayer dollars.
Homan went on to criticize Van Hollen over the border crisis during President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration.
&#8220;What concerns me is Van Hollen never went to the border the last four years under Joe Biden, when he had a 600% increase in sex trafficking in women and children,&#8221; Homan said. &#8220;You have a record number of known inspected terrorists crossing that border. You had a quarter of a million Americans die from fentanyl overdose because of the open border. You had over 4,000 illegal aliens died making that journey, which is an historic record. What shocks me is he&#8217;s remained silent on the travesty that happened on the southern border. Many people died, thousands of people died. I met with hundreds of Angel moms and dads who buried their children that were murdered by illegal aliens. How many Angel moms and dads has he met in the state of Maryland? That&#8217;s what concerns me.&#8221;
Last week, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-calls-surprise-briefing-with-patty-morin-whose-daughter-was-killed-by-illegal-alien?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=White+House+Calls+Surprise+Briefing+With+Patty+Morin%2C+Whose+Daughter+Was+Killed+By+Illegal+Alien" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> Van Hollen and other Democrats who have rallied in support of Abrego Garcia during a press briefing alongside <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-briefing-room-an-angel-mom-begs-white-house-media-to-tell-the-truth-about-illegal-crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patty Morin</a>, whose daughter, Rachel, 37, was raped and murdered in Maryland two years ago by another illegal immigrant from El Salvador.
“It’s appalling and sad that Senator Van Hollen and the Democrats applauding his trip to El Salvador today are incapable of having any shred of common sense or empathy for their own constituents and our citizens,” Leavitt said.

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WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum aimed at blocking illegal immigrants from receiving Social Security benefits, arguing that only legal American citizens should be eligible for benefits.
The move aims to remove monetary incentives for illegal aliens to come to the United States, the White House explained in a fact sheet released Tuesday, noting that Trump has repeatedly promised to take illegal immigrants off Social Security, and that the president signed an executive order in February ordering taxpayer resources not be used to incentivize or support illegal immigration.
Under President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration, more than 2 million illegal immigrants were assigned Social Security numbers in just the 2024 fiscal year, the White House said. The White House argues that the Biden administration&#8217;s actions continue to steal money and important services from American citizens.
The president&#8217;s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-prevents-illegal-aliens-from-obtaining-social-security-act-benefits/">memorandum</a> directs his administration to make sure that illegal aliens are not receiving funds from any Social Security programs, prioritizing enforcement actions against any grantees or sub-grantees that fail to verify eligibility or stop payments to deceased or ineligible people who are receiving these benefits.
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The Social Security Administration’s Inspector General must investigate the earnings reports for individuals who are 100 or older and have mismatched records, in order to combat identity theft, the memorandum says. Additionally, Trump&#8217;s action expands the Social Security Administration’s fraud prosecutor program to 50 or more U.S. Attorney&#8217;s offices across the United States, and establishes a Medicaid fraud-prosecution program in 15 U.S. Attorney&#8217;s offices.
The administration has already stopped over 1,000 immigrants with ties to terrorist activity or criminal records from receiving Social Security benefits, the White House said. As part of its efforts to remove illegal immigrants from the country, the Trump administration has also launched the CBP Home app, which offers illegals an opportunity to &#8220;self-deport.&#8221;
According to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, the Biden border agenda cost federal and state taxpayers over $16.2 billion. The Federation for American Immigration Reform has calculated that American taxpayers spent at least $182 billion annually covering the costs of 20 million immigrants and their children who entered the country illegally, the White House said. That figure includes $66.4 billion in federal expenses, and $115.6 billion in state and local expenses.

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Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas made it clear on Friday that he had absolutely zero interest in discussing the recently-secured state of the United States-Mexico border.
Mayorkas, when confronted at an airport by The Blaze national correspondent Julio Rosas, made every effort instead to beat a hasty retreat rather than answer questions about the fact that the border — which was open by design during his tenure as part of President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration — has been largely secured since the day President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
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National Correspondent <a href="https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Julio_Rosas11</a> asked former DHS Secretary Mayorkas about President Trump securing the southern border: <a href="https://t.co/FFr2T8Prkm">pic.twitter.com/FFr2T8Prkm</a>
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Mayorkas seemed approachable enough at first, saying it was &#8220;a pleasure&#8221; and offering a hand to shake as Rosas introduced himself and stated that he was with Blaze media.
&#8220;I just wanted to ask you how it feels to see —&#8221; Rosas had not even gotten his first question out before Mayorkas waved him off, saying, &#8220;Not right now.&#8221;
&#8220;— that the United States has a secure border now that President Trump is in office, as opposed to when you were Secretary of Homeland Security,&#8221; Rosas finished, and Mayorkas kept walking.
Mayorkas kept his mouth shut as Rosas followed up by asking whether he had &#8220;any regrets&#8221; with regard to allowing the border to remain open, especially given the new data that says under Trump&#8217;s DHS, &#8220;border crossings are down 95%.&#8221;
&#8220;Do you regret allowing Tren de Aragua to gain a foothold in the United States?&#8221; Rosas asked, but again, Mayorkas remained silent. &#8220;Do you have anything to say, sir, about your time as Homeland Security Secretary? facilitating an open border?&#8221;
The former DHS chief boarded an escalator, but Rosas met him at the bottom with another question: &#8220;I mean, it was a big issue, sir, that&#8217;s one of the reasons why President Trump won re-election. You don&#8217;t have anything to say about it?&#8221;
Rosas went on to ask whether Mayorkas had regrets about the thousands of migrant children the Biden administration had &#8220;lost track of&#8221; after they came into the United States — and whether he had anything to say about the fact that lax policies under his tenure had actually helped to increase widespread support for the mass deportations Trump promised and had already begun to deliver.
Mayorkas still said nothing, and exited the airport.

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The Trump administration has reportedly repurposed a mobile application that the Biden administration used as a gateway for migrants to enter the United States and will now use the platform to encourage illegal aliens to self-deport back to their home countries.
Formerly called the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) One app, the app allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants to remotely schedule appointments at points of entry, allowing them to be paroled into the country&#8217;s interior during the Biden administration.
Now, under President Donald Trump, the app will be <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/leave-now-trump-admin-repurposes-controversial-cbp-one-app-encourage-self-deportations">updated to “CBP Home”</a> and will allow migrants to “submit intent to depart” and “verify departure” from the United States. The app will automatically update on the devices that had installed Biden’s version of the platform, allowing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to track them for removal.
&#8220;The Biden Administration exploited the CBP One App to allow more than 1 million aliens to illegally enter the United States,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said. “With the launching of the CBP Home App, we are restoring integrity to our immigration system.”
&#8220;The CBP Home App gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream,” Noem added. “If they don’t, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return.”
Trump shut down the Biden administration’s version of the app on his first day in office while moving to freeze parole applications and allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to cancel the parole statuses of migrants.
The new CBP Home app comes as the Trump administration has launched a series of efforts to deter would-be border crossers and deport illegal aliens currently present in the United States.
Noem announced “a nationwide and international multimillion-dollar ad campaign warning illegal aliens to leave our country NOW or face deportation with the inability to return to the US” last month.
“If you are considering entering America illegally, don’t even think about it. Let me be clear. If you come to our country and you break our laws, we will hunt you down,” the DHS secretary said.
The Trump administration has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-arrests-11000-illegal-aliens-in-first-18-days-of-trump-administration">deported</a> 11,00o illegal aliens in the first 18 days of his second term, while the Department of Defense is working to prepare the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to house <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-begins-flying-illegal-aliens-to-guantanamo-bay">tens of thousands</a> of criminal illegal alien detainees.

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AUSTIN, Texas – Following Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration, it took his new administration all of an hour to bring the greatest mass migration border crisis in American history to a shuddering halt, with the first full month of apprehension numbers in February hitting <a href="https://x.com/USBPChief/status/1896009220333375909" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the lowest levels in decades</a>. The great mass migration crisis is, <a href="https://cis.org/Bensman/Greatest-Mass-Migration-Border-Crisis-US-History-Over" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in my estimation</a>, over thanks to a simple combination of Trump’s restoration of lawful detentions, rapid expulsions, interior deportations, and an end to releases. RIP to January 2021 — January 2025.
But before anyone moves on from this funeral, however, a different ceremony is necessary, an autopsy for the high purpose of serious national reflection. One for the pantheon of border security ideas and theories the Democratic Party and its academic, pro-migration think tank allies relentlessly sold the American public for years on end as the only means to save the Republic from the unmitigated mass border migration it started as soon as Joe Biden took office.
Now debunked, disgraced, and shot full of holes by what Trump accomplished in an hour on is first day in office, may all of us bury these pseudo-scientific political theories and ideas forevermore in the dung heap of political scams where they belong, and to salt the Earth around them.
<h3>The Scam ‘Senate Bill’</h3>
In retrospect, Democrats used these untested, yet seemingly plausible immigration policy ideas to distract Americans from what they were really doing, which was dismantling the despised policies that actually worked to keep illegal border crossers at bay.
Start with the most emblematic of these bait-and-switch ideas, the “bipartisan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-a-stunt-senate-rejects-border-security-bill-again" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lankford senate bill</a>.” Democratic Party presidential nominee Kamala Harris relentlessly sold this piece of legislation to the American public as the only possible panacea to control the border. Trump and Republicans had the bill killed, which set the stage for Harris and many Democrats running for office to promise its resurrection as a central plank of the party’s immigration policy platforms.
Harris, Biden himself, and Democratic Party influencers would chant almost in unison, for instance, that the legislation’s provisions would finally give a President the absent necessary authorities to really crack down on illegal immigration. Under the Biden administration enforcement encounters at the Southern border averaged more than 200,000 a month, and more than 7,000 per day. Remember they would cite how it would even provide more Border Patrol agents and CBP officers to seize more fentanyl and blamed Trump for killing the bill to perpetuate the border crisis for political advantage?
<div id="attachment_745779" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-745779" class="size-large wp-image-745779" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/Untitled-design-117-1024x576.jpg" alt="A group of migrants are processed by Border Patrol after crossing the river illegally near the highway on February 4, 2024 outside Eagle Pass, Texas." width="1024" height="576" />(Photo by SERGIO FLORES/AFP via Getty Images)</div>
“I will make sure that it comes to my desk, and I would sign it,” <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/harris-said-shed-sign-the-bipartisan-border-bill-that-trump-stopped-heres-whats-in-it-183310125.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harris told CNN</a> during a typical August 2024 interview about the desperate need for a big piece of legislation like the Lankford bill.
But here’s what we can all now see on naked obvious display with Trump’s border crossings averaging south of 300 per day, on track for an historically low 8,300 per month (all quickly expelled back into Mexico): No legislation providing extra presidential authorities were then, now or in the future ever needed for a president to substantially reduce illegal immigrant crossings. It was all a big fat lie.
Those <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-crossings-plunge-90-to-historic-lows-under-trump-crackdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lowest numbers</a> in recorded American history are happening because everything that Trump (or Biden) needed to drive them down was already available in the existing Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA), which required authorities to use them to achieve zero illegal entries. By contrast, the envisioned Lankford bill would have statutorily okayed the releases into the country of 5,000 alien border crossers per day – up 1.8 million per year – before a president could, if she or he felt like it, crack down with expulsions.
And all those new Border Patrol agents? Their real purpose was to process those 5,000 per day for release into the country, not to catch and expel.
Now that Trump’s plan is working magic, the whole “we-must-have-legislation” narrative or something called “comprehensive immigration reform” must never be let out of its crypt.
<h3>Digging Up ‘Root Causes’</h3>
You&#8217;ll have to dig a deep hole in the dung heap of tin foil hat ideas to find one of the most pernicious of the Democratic Party’s immigration theories that Trump’s border has now exposed: the so-called “Root Causes Strategy.” The Biden administration appropriated this idea from European progressive liberals <a href="https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/29/u-s-strategy-for-addressing-the-root-causes-of-migration-in-central-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as its central immigration policy</a> with a <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fact-sheet-strategy-address-the-root-causes-migration-central-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 2021 Executive Order</a> that claimed this was the best way to control the U.S. southern border. Biden appointed Vice President Harris to oversee the whole stupid thing.
The theory held that fewer citizens of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador would want to emigrate if the United States invested billions in tax and development money to rebuild those troubled Central American sending countries.
During an April 2021 state visit to Central America, the new border czar laid blame for the already surging illegal crossings on “extensive storm damage because of extreme climate.” And kept going.
“We’re looking at drought in a region where agriculture is one of the most traditionally important bases for their economy,” she explained. “We’re looking at what’s happening in terms of food scarcity as a result of that.”
After billions in U.S. foreign aid, it worked about as well as the idea worked for European liberals who first concocted the bizarre notion in the early 1980s. The most cursory glance at Europe’s experience would have shown it failed miserably there, just as it has here. For example, the European Union-funded policy think tank MIGNEX <a href="https://www.mignex.org/publications/throwing-development-money-migration-problem-it-completely-misguided" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reviewed some 10 studies</a> spanning more than a decade where development aid was invested to reduce Europe-bound emigration from poor countries.
“In its current form, development aid does not seem to be big enough to create the underlying changes that effect migration decisions,” the MIGNEX report concluded, in part. “In cases where we do see a deterrent effect of aid on migration, a noticeable impact would require an unrealistic increase in aid.”
Writing for the International Institute of Social Studies in 2007, social scientist Hein de Haas <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00435.x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concluded that</a>, “Besides the limited scope and credibility of such policies, empirical and theoretical evidence strongly suggests that economic and human development increases people’s capabilities and aspirations and therefore tends to coincide with an increase rather than a decrease in emigration.”
We now know the Biden administration dangled the root-causes strategy like a shiny bauble over here, while opening the border over there.
America must now strike this idea dead and bury it deep.
<h3>Simple Causes, Simple Solutions</h3>
Trump’s quick border closure now requires that the American public, lawmakers, students of immigration policy and policy practitioners finally and forever accept that starting and stopping mass migration events was never the complex undertaking that Democrats constantly asserted while keeping the southern border wide open. 
Neither the border nor the “immigration system” were ever “broken” like they always claimed in need of drastic “comprehensive immigration reform.”
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On Trump&#8217;s inauguration day, supposed emigration-driving climate change, foreign government persecution, gang crime and all the other Democrat-claimed causes of the American border crisis did not – all of a sudden –relent. 
Trump used a few policy tools that past Congresses provided presidents under existing law to address the only real and simple “root cause” of mass migration, which was to dramatically lower the chances that smuggling fee money will buy entry into the United States for a long enough time to pay it back many times over. 
They’re coming in mass when the payoff odds of release-and-stay are high like Biden-Harris mass-release policies made them. They’re staying home when the payoff odds are really low, like Trump just made them with detention, expulsion, and deportation. 
That’s the only idea now proven and left standing for all of America to see and know. The rest of them should be pronounced dead on arrival and then be buried, hopefully forever.
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Todd Bensman is a Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and a two-time <a href="https://www.toddbensman.com/awards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Press Club award winner.</a> He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and a 23-year veteran newspaper reporter. He is the author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Covert-Border-War-Infiltration/dp/1642937258/ref=sr_1_2?crid=BP7S7BH2VBFB&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.O6ZnUZYfSlVsoiHcdjPhFHfMHLUTDwW2ZnKSAJboBbE5kdYf_h7sD08-h6YkTqOaoX3BwNswbUMPbnTbwQYA0OPgQiI3nLoLjosQWsEhFf5KFAPB4F0DTwUsSoJFgmaEF7V1rMQnOPvLvOLapFQ1ESD-D7UVwCNHsSGEs2XzEa9rmO1CLoVV277SrmlPOkJf.15UkCaAoqCyd7hpP16dl7D3_ZWawrd1RcN3D_ZSFo4w&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=todd+bensman&amp;qid=1730314546&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=todd+bensman%2Cstripbooks%2C100&amp;sr=1-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">America’s Covert Border War</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Overrun-Unleashed-Greatest-Border-History-ebook/dp/B0BS1R9LCP?ref_=ast_author_dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History</a>.”
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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How Trump’s Suddenly Secure Border Forever Debunks Dem Immigration Theories

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Trump Border Czar Tom Homan delivered a fiery speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, praising the administration&#8217;s border security strides and promising an even more aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration.
Homan praised the Trump administration for achieving “the most secure border in my lifetime” and vowed to “open up every avenue of law enforcement” to combat illegal immigration.
In less than a month under these renewed measures, Homan said illegal crossings have dropped “95%” while Immigration and Customs Enforcement has conducted more than “21,000” arrests.
He also criticized sanctuary cities as providing a “sanctuary for criminals” and announced a broader interior crackdown. Homan further declared the administration’s intent to label Mexican cartels as terrorist groups, warning that their collaborators would be assisting a “terrorist organization.”
Homan used much of his remarks to underscore the need for strong cooperation between federal and local agencies. He censured officials who refuse to turn over individuals suspected of crimes to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), portraying them as harboring violent offenders.
“We’re not making this s*** up. We’re enforcing the laws enacted by Congress,” he said, warning all “criminal aliens” would be prosecuted and removed from the country.
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He singled out certain cities in particular, including Boston, where Homan said criminals had been released back into communities instead of being transferred for deportation proceedings. “I’m coming to Boston,” he declared. “I’m bringing hell with me.”
Homan’s goal in these cities would be to track down offenders who had evaded federal action and ensure that “they’re locked back up.”
In addition to broader enforcement efforts, Homan suggested tapping into resources across multiple federal agencies to bolster arrests and prosecutions in areas with high violent crime. He noted that coordinated initiatives, including assistance from the United States Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, would supplement ICE operations that focus on guns, narcotics, and other serious offenses. By tightening interagency cooperation, Homan said, officials would ensure criminal suspects faced prosecution before deportation.
Homan stressed that moral imperatives and national security interests aligned in enforcing these laws, promising that with government backing, officials would keep the pace until “every criminal alien, every gang member” was apprehended and removed.
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Trump Border Czar Promises ‘Hell’ For Sanctuary Cities In Fiery CPAC Speech

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum proposed constitutional reforms to safeguard Mexico’s sovereignty after the Trump administration designated six drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, prompting concerns about potential U.S. military action across the border.
“The Mexican people will not accept under any circumstances interventions, interference or any other act from abroad that could be harmful to the integrity, independence and sovereignty of the nation,” she <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/fearing-trump-cross-border-militarily-pursue-cartels-mexico-moves-reform-constitution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, per Fox News.
Sheinbaum seeks to enshrine current limits on the operations of foreign agents into the constitution and establish harsher penalties for gun trafficking. “What we want to make clear in the face of this designation is that we do not negotiate sovereignty,” she said.
Sheinbaum said Mexico was not consulted when the Trump administration designated the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
Historically, terrorist designations against criminal syndicates have sparked debates over national sovereignty and whether such moves could justify extended actions by the U.S. government abroad. In this case, observers have noted that tensions between the two neighbors could escalate if Washington believes it now has broader authority to operate against any cartel activity in Mexican territory.
The new designation, which goes into effect on Thursday, identifies a total of six Mexican organizations in addition to prior targets, widening a list that encompasses Sinaloa, Jalisco, Zetas, Gulf Cartels, Cartel Unidos, and “La Nueva Familia Michoacana.” Other criminal entities — including the Venezuelan group Tren de Aragua and the Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13 — were also named.
While some of these cartels have long been notorious for drug trafficking and violence, the terrorist label opens the door to further U.S. legal action against individuals and networks that aid or abet their operations.
Sheinbaum’s predecessor, Former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, previously signed into law limits on foreign agents in Mexico, requiring approval from the Mexican government for every action taken. Sheinbaum plans to strengthen these rules by cementing them into the Mexican Constitution.
In her announcement, Sheinbaum cited the need to crack down on arms trafficking, an issue Mexican and American experts have linked to the strength of cartels operating within the country. The new proposed reform applies severe penalties to foreigners involved in the assembling, smuggling, and distribution of guns.
Sheinbaum’s party holds majorities in both chambers of Congress and has already passed several constitutional reforms.

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Fearing U.S. Military Action Against Cartels, Mexico Moves To Reinforce Sovereignty Laws

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