The United States Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has taken over Washington, D.C., office space that once served as headquarters for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
“CBP has signed a license agreement to occupy approximately 390,000 usable square feet in the USAID tower,” a CBP spokesman told <a href="https://www.politico.com/playbook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a>.
The agreement comes after the Trump administration has gutted USAID in its previous form to restrict its funding priorities and move it under direct oversight by the State Department and its head, Marco Rubio.
The move also reflects a change in vision and priorities for the new administration, which has taken a more critical approach to foreign aid while focusing much more on the immigration crisis that gripped the country during the previous administration. Earlier this week, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stephen-miller-pledges-full-might-of-dhs-doj-dod-to-be-used-in-mass-deportation-effort" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reiterated</a> the administration’s commitment to border security and mass deporting illegal aliens.
“I can promise you that the full might of the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, and every element and instrument of national power will be used to remove with speed all criminal illegals from the soil of the United States of America, to enforce final removal orders, and to ensure that this country is for American citizens and those that legally belong in this country,” Miller said during a White House press briefing.
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In its first weeks in office, the Trump administration has deported roughly 11,000 illegal aliens while creating space at places such as the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to hold more deportees as the administration works to return aliens to their countries of origin.
Meanwhile, illegal entries into the United States through the southern border have plummeted since Trump was elected.
“According to newly released data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP), just 61,465 illegal aliens were apprehended at the southern border during the entire month of January — a 36% decline from the previous month. That number includes 29,116 apprehended along the border — the lowest since May 2020 — and 32,349 at ports of entry,” the White House said in a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/illegal-border-crossings-plummeted-in-january/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> this week.

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Illegal border crossing at the southern border of the United States “plummeted” in January, falling precipitously as President Donald Trump returned to office in what the White House is calling &#8220;the Trump Effect.&#8221;
Apprehensions of illegal border crossings into the United States dropped 36 percent last month, falling to 61,465, new data from Customs and Border Patrol indicates. The figure, which includes 29,116 apprehensions on the border and another 32,349 at ports of entry, is the lowest since May 2020, when the COVID response virtually shut down the southern border as new restrictions had been implemented.
The rate dropped particularly rapidly after Trump assumed office on January 20, the White House pointed out in a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/illegal-border-crossings-plummeted-in-january/">press release</a> on Tuesday.
“From Jan. 21 through Jan. 31, the number of U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions along the southwest border dropped 85% from the same period in 2024, according to data obtained by ABC News. In the 11 days after Jan. 20, migrants apprehended at ports of entry declined by 93%.”
The data marks a stark contrast with the Biden administration, which had an average of 141,710 in the month of January, with the Trump administration calling those crossings “the result of dangerous policies that ferried illegal aliens directly into our communities, where they were allowed to stay indefinitely.”
The drop in illegal border crossings comes as the Trump administration has taken a range of different actions to disincentivize illegal immigration, most notably by enforcing federal immigration law within the interior of the country and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-arrests-11000-illegal-aliens-in-first-18-days-of-trump-administration">deporting</a> illegal aliens.
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From drug traffickers in Baltimore to cartel members in Houston, ICE is deporting criminals illegal aliens across the country.<a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MaryMargOlohan</a> and I reported for <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a> on some of the worst offenders captured this Sunday. 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/jDlZOJmx3C">pic.twitter.com/jDlZOJmx3C</a>
— Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1884629928341119380?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
The administration has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-begins-flying-illegal-aliens-to-guantanamo-bay">transported criminal illegal aliens</a> to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, with preparations underway for the facility to hold up to 30,000 detainees.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dont-even-think-about-it-kristi-noem-issues-harsh-warning-to-illegal-immigrants-coming-to-u-s?topStoryPosition=undefined">announced</a> that the federal agency would launch “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.”
“Let me deliver a message from President Trump to the world. 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,” Noem said in a video accompanying the announcement. “Criminals are not welcome in the United States. For too long, weak leadership has left our borders wide open, flooding our communities with drugs, human trafficking, and violent criminals.”
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dont-even-think-about-it-kristi-noem-issues-harsh-warning-to-illegal-immigrants-coming-to-u-s">&#8216;Don&#8217;t Even Think About It&#8217;: Kristi Noem Issues Harsh &#8216;Warning&#8217; To Illegal Immigrants Coming To U.S.</a>

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> is set to sign an executive order directing the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare the Guantanamo Bay detention camp to hold as many as 30,000 criminal illegal aliens.
Trump announced his impending executive order at a signing event for the Laken Riley Act, an immigration security bill named after a 22 year-old victim of an illegal alien murderer. The Guantanamo Bay detention facility, located in Cuba, has historically been used to detain terror suspects. Shortly after taking office, Trump signed an executive order designating cartels as Foreign Terror Organizations.
“Today, I’m also signing an Executive Order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay … to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.”
“Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them,” he said of criminal illegal aliens. “We don’t want them coming back so we’re going to send them out to Guantanamo. This is going to double our capacity immediately.”
“I hereby direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all appropriate actions to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States, and to address attendant immigration enforcement needs identified by the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security,” Trump’s executive order reads. 
It goes on to add that the memo “is issued in order to halt the border invasion, dismantle criminal cartels, and restore national sovereignty.”
Trump’s comments came at an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmxgNgNrhf4">event</a> at which the President signed the Laken Riley Act, an immigration bill named after the 22 year-old Georgia nursing student who was brutally murdered by an illegal alien from Venezuela last year while she was out for a morning jog.
The legislation will require the detention of illegal aliens charged with theft or violent crimes. The bill received bipartisan support in both chambers of Congress. “She’s going to save a lot of lives, she’s going to be responsible for saving a lot of lives,” Trump said to the parents of Riley at the event. He also accused the previous administration of opening America’s borders and allowing “world’s most dangerous criminals straight into” American communities.
Under the Trump administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has set out to capture and repatriate illegal aliens, with a special focus on illegal aliens convicted of other crimes in addition to illegally crossing the border into the United States.
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From drug traffickers in Baltimore to cartel members in Houston, ICE is deporting criminals illegal aliens across the country.<a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MaryMargOlohan</a> and I reported for <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a> on some of the worst offenders captured this Sunday. 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/jDlZOJmx3C">pic.twitter.com/jDlZOJmx3C</a>
— Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1884629928341119380?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
ICE caught several criminal illegal aliens just this Sunday, The Daily Wire reported. Federal immigration enforcement agents caught a member of the MS-13 cartel, the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, a man in possession of child pornography, a drug and weapons trafficker, and multiple violent criminals across the country on Sunday.
UPDATE: This article has been updated to provide text of the executive order after it was signed.

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An illegal alien in Vermont allegedly murdered a U.S. Border Patrol agent during a traffic stop on Monday.
&#8220;Today, January 20, a Border Patrol agent assigned to the US Border Patrol’s Swanton Sector was fatally shot in the line of duty,&#8221; said Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Benjamine Huffman.
Huffman added, &#8220;This incident is being swiftly investigated and DHS will release additional information as soon as it becomes available.&#8221;
NewsNation&#8217;s Ali Bradley reported that the Border Patrol agent was &#8220;shot in the neck by an illegal immigrant who sources say was a &#8216;visa overstay.'&#8221;
&#8220;Sources say the agent was conducting a traffic stop when he was shot,&#8221; Bradley wrote on X. &#8220;The shooter is also dead. A woman was injured in the altercation, her status and condition are not known at this time.&#8221;
Bradley said that Border Patrol officials believe that some criminal illegal aliens will try to flee the U.S. now that President Donald Trump is back in office.
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Huffman said America&#8217;s Border Patrol agents &#8220;put themselves in harm’s way so that Americans and our homeland are safe and secure.&#8221;
&#8220;My prayers and deepest condolences are with our Department, the Agent’s family, loved ones, and colleagues,&#8221; he added.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a> A Border Patrol agent in Vermont is dead after being shot in the neck by an illegal immigrant who sources say was a “visa overstay.”
Sources say the agent was conducting a traffic stop when he was shot.
The shooter is also dead. A woman was injured in the… <a href="https://t.co/oiHrHFDugO">pic.twitter.com/oiHrHFDugO</a>
— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/AliBradleyTV/status/1881453715179118645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>

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The Trump administration has already shut down the controversial Customs and Border Patrol One application, which streamlined nearly one million illegal aliens into the United States.
Just moments after Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States, his administration <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-deportation-immigration-homan-asylum-inauguration-ac10480dc636b758ab3c435b974aeb19">shut down</a> the CBP One app, which allowed migrants to remotely schedule asylum hearings and be released into the United States. Existing appointments have also been canceled.
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🚨The CBP One app has been shut down immediately by Trump
Biden let in more than a million migrants using this app, some of whom had criminal histories/terror ties. <a href="https://t.co/OQzlzYrYsf">pic.twitter.com/OQzlzYrYsf</a>
— Jennie Taer 🎗️ (@JennieSTaer) <a href="https://twitter.com/JennieSTaer/status/1881402093283733991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
An <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/about/mobile-apps-directory/cbpone">update</a> from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection says that “the functionalities of CBP One that previously allowed undocumented aliens to submit advance information and schedule appointments at eight southwest border points of entry is no longer available” before noting that appointments have been canceled.
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Migrants in Ciudad Juárez who were waiting for their 1 pm CBP1 parole appointments learned 20 minutes ago that the app has shut down &amp; those appointments are no longer valid. <a href="https://t.co/F3pNrZyEBR">pic.twitter.com/F3pNrZyEBR</a>
&mdash; Arelis R. Hernández (@arelisrhdz) <a href="https://twitter.com/arelisrhdz/status/1881397640849678362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Documents from the Department of Homeland Security <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/over-a-quarter-million-inadmissible-aliens-released-into-u-s-after-using-cbp-app-homeland-security-documents-reveal">indicate</a> that more than a quarter million &#8220;inadmissible aliens” entered the United States through the app. Under the Biden administration, House Republicans <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/434207/house-homeland-security-committee-to-investigate-cbp-one-app/">warned</a> that cartels exploited the system.
Trump is expected to sign a wide-reaching slate of immigration-related executive orders on his first day in office and declare a national emergency on the border, allowing the Department of Defense to send members of the National Guard and Armed Forces to secure the border and build physical barriers.
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The new president is also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-declare-immigration-national-emergency-deploy-troops-to-border">expected</a> to end birthright citizenship for illegal aliens, suspend refugee resettlement, resume building the wall, and designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, White House officials explained.
The officials noted that he will reinstate the Remain in Mexico policy, which orders migrants to remain in the country while asylum claims are processed, also telling reporters that the president will work to end the current asylum system altogether.
The House of Representatives will also focus on immigration in the first days of the Trump administration. The House Judiciary Committee’s first hearing in 2025 will be titled “Restoring Immigration Enforcement in America” and will discuss “what the Trump administration can do to restore integrity to America’s immigration system,” The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-first-house-judiciary-hearing-of-2025-to-focus-on-biden-border-failures">exclusively reported</a>.

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The Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Homeland Security freed an illegal alien who was wanted of child rape in his home country into the United States.
The illegal alien, a 25-year-old Ecuadorean national named Adrian Patricio Huerta-Nivelo, crossed the border into the United States on June 4th, 2021 before being <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-boston-removes-international-fugitive-wanted-questioning-ecuadoran-child-rape">apprehended</a> by Border Patrol.
Huerta-Nivelo was given a notice to appear in front of an immigration judge before being released into the interior of the United States. Just days after his release, however, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) discovered that the illegal alien was wanted in Ecuador in connection to the rape of a child.
ICE arrested Huerta-Nivelo days after he was released into the United States on June 12th, 2021 in Boston, Massachusetts. The federal law enforcement agency held the illegal alien in their custody until an immigration judge ordered him to be deported from the country. He was then returned to Ecuador and handed over to law enforcement agents in his home country.
Though Huerta-Nivelo is not believed to have committed any violent crimes during his brief time in the United States, numerous other illegal aliens have committed violent crimes after illegally crossing the border.
One illegal alien, 20-year-old Venezuelan national, <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/21/us-news/venezuelan-migrant-charged-with-raping-bosss-teen-daughter/">Jesus Alberto Pereira Castillo</a>, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-alien-charged-with-raping-14-year-old-girl-in-denver-as-mayor-opposes-deportation-effort">arrested</a> in Denver, Colorado for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl. The arrest came as the city’s Democrat mayor, Mike Johnston, indicated that he would resist attempts from the Trump administration to enforce federal immigration law in Denver.
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Massachusett’s Democrat Governor similarly said that she would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-gov-refuses-to-help-deportations-as-ice-busts-alleged-illegal-alien-child-rapists-in-her-state">refuse</a> to assist federal immigration enforcement operations, even as ICE operations in the state resulted in the capture of three illegal aliens, each of which had been charged or convicted with raping children. One of those illegal aliens, Alexandre Romao De Oliveira, entered the United States in 2022 and had previously been convicted in Brazil of raping a child.
President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the “largest mass deportation operation” in American history, with recent polling indicating that a majority of Americans are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-strongly-supportive-of-trumps-mass-deportation-agenda-poll-finds">in favor</a> of the plan.

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First, I want to say Happy Veterans Day and thank you to everyone who has served in uniform in the United States military. You are making a sacrifice, and you have made sacrifices none of the rest of us have made. We owe you our undying gratitude, particularly on Veterans Day. Thank you so much for fighting for this country, for defending this country, and for making everything we have possible.
Today, we have winning on the menu with two big Trump wins right off the bat.
Trump has now tapped Tom Homan as his new “border czar.” Tom Homan is, of course, the former acting ICE chief. In a social media post late on Sunday, Trump made his <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113462412414821782" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a>:
<blockquote>I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation’s Borders (“The Border Czar”), including, but not limited to, the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security. I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders. Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin. Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job.</blockquote>
Homan is somebody who really stands up for the principles of a closed border and for legal immigration. In October during an <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mass-deportation-plan-cost-consequences-60-minutes-transcript/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview with 60 Minutes’</a> Cecilia Vega, Homan clarified his positioning on deportation:
<blockquote>Vega: We have seen one estimate that says it would cost $88 billion to deport a million people a year.
Homan: I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s accurate or not.
Vega: Is that what American taxpayers should expect?
Homan: What price do you put on national security? Is it worth it? 
Vega: Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without separating families?
Homan: Of course there is. Families can be deported together.</blockquote>
Trump is serious about deporting a large number of people, and Homan is the most serious person to act as “border czar.”
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In a hearing in 2019 before the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Homan <a href="https://congress.gov/116/meeting/house/109772/documents/HHRG-116-GO00-Transcript-20190712-U10.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faced down</a> the venerable intellect, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Congress:
<blockquote>Ocasio-Cortez: Mr. Homan, your name is on this. Is this correct?
Homan: Yes, I signed that memo.
Ocasio-Cortez: So you are the author of the family separation policy?
Homan: I am not the author of this memo.
Ocasio-Cortez: You’re not the author, but you signed the memo?
Homan: Yes, a zero-tolerance memo.
Ocasio-Cortez: So you provided the official recommendation to Secretary Nielsen on family—for the United States to pursue family separation?
Homan: I gave Secretary Nielsen numerous recommendations on how to secure the border and save lives.
Ocasio-Cortez: But it says here that you—you gave her numerous options, but the recommendation was option three, family separation.
Homan: What I’m saying, this is not the only paper where we had given the Secretary numerous options to secure the border and save lives.
Ocasio-Cortez: And so the recommendation — of the many that you recommended — you recommended family separation.
Homan: I recommended zero tolerance.
Ocasio-Cortez: Which includes family separation.
Homan: The same as it is with every U.S. citizen parent that gets arrested when they’re with a child.
Ocasio-Cortez: Zero tolerance was interpreted as the policy that separated children from their parents?
Homan: If I get arrested for DUI and I have a young child in the car, I’m going to be separated. When I was a police officer in New York and I arrested a father for domestic violence, I separated that father from—
Ocasio-Cortez: Mr. Homan, with all due respect, legal asylees are not charged with any crime.
Homan: When you’re in the country illegally, it’s a violation of eight United States Code 1325.
Ocasio-Cortez: Seeking asylum is legal.
Homan: If you want to seek asylum, go through the port of entry, do it the legal way. The Attorney General of the United States has made that clear.</blockquote>
That is the new border czar. Trump was not joking when he talked about closing the border and taking the issue of illegal immigration seriously.
Tom Homan as the “border czar” was not Trump&#8217;s only announced pick over the weekend. He also announced Rep. Elise Stefanik to his choice for the U.N. ambassador role.
That&#8217;s a great job. If you have to pick any job in the American government, U.N. ambassador is a fantastic job because you have a very nice apartment in New York City, and then you go over to the U.N., which is a repository of all human scum, and yell at dictators all day. It&#8217;s a pretty phenomenal job.
Stefanik happens to be an excellent candidate for this position. Just last December, she stood up to antisemitism on college campuses. In last year’s Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on “Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism,” Stefanik <a href="https://stefanik.house.gov/2023/12/icymi-during-questions-from-stefanik-presidents-of-harvard-upenn-mit-refuse-to-condemn-calls-for-genocide-of-jews" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pressed</a> then-Harvard University President Claudine Gay, along with several other university heads, whether allowing antisemitic chants calling for the elimination of the state of Israel was, in fact, antisemitic:
<blockquote>Stefanik: I will ask you one more time. Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard&#8217;s rules of bullying and harassment? Yes or no?
Gay: Antisemitic rhetoric when it crosses into conduct, that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation, that is actionable conduct, and we do take action.
Stefanik: So the answer is yes. That calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard Code of Conduct. Correct?
Gay: Again, it depends on the context.
Stefanik: It does not depend on the context the answer is yes, and this is why you should resign. These are unacceptable answers across the board.</blockquote>
After this hearing — and after she was found to have plagiarized multiple works, including her dissertation — Gay ended up losing her job.
So, these are all excellent picks.
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2024 Republican National Convention: Day 3

Promise Kept! Trump Picks Hard Core Border Czar

Customs and Border Protection (CPB)

Opinion

Tom Homan

Morale among U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents has skyrocketed following Donald Trump&#8217;s landslide election victory last week, according to National Border Patrol Council President Paul Perez.
Trump made illegal immigration and border security central parts of his 2024 platform, promising to finish his southern border wall and conduct the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. Perez told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/border-patrol-morale-through-roof-after-trumps-re-election-union-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> in an interview on Monday that &#8220;morale is through the roof&#8221; among Border Patrol agents, adding, &#8220;We’ve received hundreds of calls, texts, emails, just saying how happy the agents are.&#8221;
&#8220;There are a lot of agents that had originally said that they would retire if President Trump did not win. And now those same agents are saying they&#8217;re going to hold back on their retirement because they want to serve under this administration again, because they know exactly how it was during this first administration, and they know this one&#8217;s going to be even better,&#8221; he continued.
The National Border Patrol Council, which represents around 16,000 members, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-patrol-union-urges-americans-to-vote-for-trump-to-end-the-chaos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> Trump&#8217;s White House bid in October, with Perez warning, &#8220;If we allow Border Czar Harris to win this election, every city, every community in this great country, is going to go to hell. The untold millions of people, unvetted, who she has allowed into this country that are committing murders, rapes, robberies, burglaries, and every other crime will continue to put our country in peril.&#8221;
The Biden administration&#8217;s border policies led to around <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/2024/05/22/startling-stats-factsheet-biden-administration-on-track-to-reach-10-million-encounters-nationwide-before-end-of-fiscal-year/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10 million encounters</a> along the southern border in less than four years. Numerous agents said they would resign if Vice President Kamala Harris won the election, with some <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-patrol-agents-warn-of-mass-resignations-if-kamala-harris-wins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describing</a> working under the Biden-Harris administration as “four years in hell.”
Perez added that with another Trump presidency, CBP will likely have a larger pool of &#8220;recruits to choose from.&#8221;
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&#8220;We&#8217;ve always had a recruiting problem. And so right now, with President Trump coming into office, a lot of people are going to want to do this job,&#8221; he said. &#8220;A lot of people have shown interest previously, but they were hesitant to apply and work for the previous administration. So under Trump, we&#8217;re going to have a good amount of recruits to choose from.&#8221;
Trump has already taken action on preparing to carry out his immigration agenda, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-taps-tom-homan-to-be-new-border-czar?topStoryPosition=4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tapping</a> Tom Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to serve as the new &#8220;border czar.&#8221; Homan has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-what-trumps-incoming-border-czar-has-said-and-done-about-deportations-border-security?topStoryPosition=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised</a> to carry out Trump&#8217;s large-scale deportation operation.
“I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders,” Trump wrote. “Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin. Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job.”

Trump Prescott AZ

Border Patrol Morale ‘Through The Roof’ After Trump’s Victory, Union President Says

Border Patrol Morale 'Through The Roof' After Trump's Victory, Union President Says

2024 Election

Elections

According to a news report, members of the brutal Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico have been &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13980989/mexican-cartels-border-patrol-agents-biden-harris-migrant-crisis.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">given permission&#8221;</a> to fire at U.S. Border Patrol agents.
An internal memo was transmitted to federal agents in the El Paso Sector warning the agents of the new danger, <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/drug-cartels-permission-shoot-border-patrol-agents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NewsNation</a> reported. According to a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRocReYwhHI">report</a> broadcast on the outlet, &#8220;Mexican cartels have given permission to its members to shoot at U.S. agents at the border.&#8221;
The memo revealed that two days prior, shots had been fired at contractors working in the Eagle Pass area of Texas’ Del Rio Sector. The new problem has arisen following the internecine fighting among members of the cartel after cofounder Ismael &#8216;El Mayo&#8217; Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López, the son of imprisoned Joaquín &#8220;El Chapo&#8221; Guzmán, were arrested by U.S. authorities on July 25.
“They fear no one anymore, especially U.S. law enforcement,” former Homeland Security Investigation agent Victor Avila told NewsNation. “They do have the resources and they do have the capability, and they will use them against us. &#8230; The No. 1 reason they fight for these plazas is because these plazas are the corridors to enter the United States, whether California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and that’s the major fight because the Sinaloa cartel has controlled that whole area.”
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Former President Donald Trump has his own blunt opinion about the problem at the border, recently saying, “We need a military operation. These people have become military. They’re very rich, have a lot of money. They’re among the richest people, probably in the world.”
“We have long heard from Border Control agents that they face increased risks in their frontline jobs,” Rep. Mark Green, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13980989/mexican-cartels-border-patrol-agents-biden-harris-migrant-crisis.html">stated</a>. “These reports are just further proof that the cartels will stop at nothing to take what they want. Our border patrol agents deserve policies that will make their jobs easier. Unfortunately Biden and Harris have given them the opposite.”
“People live in fear, schools are empty, young people are disappearing, the streets are empty at night,” Miguel Calderón, State Council on Public Safety general coordinator, said. “We have a social emergency on the horizon.”

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Drug Cartels ‘Given Permission’ To Shoot At Border Patrol Agents: Report

Drug Cartels 'Given Permission' To Shoot At Border Patrol Agents: Report

Drug Cartels

Mexico

World

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-patrol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Border Patrol</a> agents are threatening to leave their jobs and warning of a mass exodus from the law enforcement agency if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the presidency in November, saying that working under the Biden-Harris administration has been “four years in hell.”
The comments come as border security and illegal immigration have been ranked as some of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-say-that-immigration-is-the-top-issue-facing-the-country-for-third-month-in-a-row">most important issues</a> on the minds of voters as the election draws near.
“I’m not doing this … again,” one anonymous agent said in an <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/10/15/us-news/border-patrol-agents-threaten-to-leave-if-kamala-harris-wins/">interview</a> with the New York Post, going on to describe working under the Biden-Harris administration as “four years in hell.” Another agent added that “lots of guys who can retire will go” if Harris wins, but that “if Trump wins, they’ll stay.”
“Under this administration, they’ve done everything they could to make our job as inefficient as possible,” one of the agents said of the Biden-Harris administration. “They can’t outwardly tell us not to do our job, but when you’re watching criminals come in and get released it sucks.”
The National Border Patrol Union recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-patrol-union-urges-americans-to-vote-for-trump-to-end-the-chaos">endorsed</a> Donald Trump for president, warning that “every city, every community in this great country, is going to go to hell” if Harris beats Trump in the November 5th election.
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Some of the illegal aliens who entered the United States under the Biden-Harris administration are now believed to have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-one-is-safe-mothers-of-illegal-alien-crime-victims-blast-kamala-border-policies">committed violent crimes</a>, including assaults, rapes, and murders, against American citizens.
Yuma Border Patrol Chief Chris Clem also commented on the current administration, saying that it has damaged morale among Border Patrol agents. “The morale has never been as low in the Border Patrol, but under the Biden-Harris administration and her current ads, acting like she’s pro-border security is just putting salt on an already gaping wound for the morale of border Border Patrol agents and law enforcement.”
Harris recently released an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-ad-features-trumps-border-wall-as-harris-pivots-on-immigration">advertisement</a> in which she markets herself as a “border state prosecutor,” with one shot even featuring an image of the border wall constructed under the Trump administration. Another advertisement stated that “Kamala Harris supports increasing the number of Border Patrol agents.”
Harris’ pivot on immigration comes as the Biden-Harris administration has presided over a historic increase in illegal immigration on both the southern and northern border. <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2455010/illegal-border-crossers-total-over-10-million-since-biden-inauguration/">More than 10 million</a> people have crossed the border under the Biden-Harris administration, with an estimated <a href="https://cis.org/Arthur/Blockbuster-House-Report-Reveals-How-Badly-Bidens-Broken-Our-Immigration-System">1.7 million illegal immigrant gotaways recorded</a> since Biden was inaugurated in 2021.
There were a total of 415,000 reported gotaways for 2018, 2019, and 2020 during the Trump administration. Recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/majority-of-americans-say-kamala-harris-hasnt-clearly-explained-immigration-stance">polling</a> has found that a majority of voters do not believe that Vice President and Democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris has “clearly explained” her policy stances concerning illegal immigration.

Border Patrol Agent

Border Patrol Agents Warn Of Mass Resignations If Kamala Harris Wins

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> was endorsed by the official Border Patrol union on Sunday during a rally in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arizona" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona</a> as he rolled out a plan to hire thousands of additional agents and increase their pay. 
The National Border Patrol Council, which represents around 16,000 members, announced its backing of Trump as he spoke at a campaign rally in Prescott Valley on Sunday afternoon. The Border Patrol union has supported each of Trump’s three campaigns for the White House, saying that his policies would help end the illegal immigration crisis. 
During the rally, National Border Patrol Council President Paul Perez sharply criticized Vice President Kamala Harris over her role in the Biden administration’s immigration policy. 
&#8220;If we allow Border Czar Harris to win this election, every city, every community in this great country, is going to go to hell. The untold millions of people, unvetted, who she has allowed into this country that are committing murders, rapes, robberies, burglaries, and every other crime will continue to put our country in peril,” he said. “Only one man can fix that and that is Donald J. Trump. He has always stood with the men and women who protect this border.&#8221;
”This November we have a choice to make: continue the chaos, allow the criminal cartels to control the border, to allow drugs and fentanyl across our country or put an end to it once and for all,” he added. 
Trump said he was honored to receive the endorsement, saying they were heroes for protecting the border. 
“I will always stand with the incredible men and women of Border Patrol,” he said. “This is a group that really needs spirit because they&#8217;re protecting us, they&#8217;re protecting our lives, they&#8217;re protecting our country.”
If elected, Trump said he would hire 10,000 new Border Patrol agents, ask Congress to give a 10% raise to all agents, and offer a $10,000 retention and signing bonus. 
Earlier in the rally, which around 7,000 people attended, Trump said that he believed the border was the most important issue of the election. 
“What they’ve done to us on the border can never be forgiven,” he said. “They’re coming from prisons and jails, insane asylums, mental institutions, from Venezuela, from the Congo, all over. And she’s resettled them into your communities to prey upon innocent American people. If Kamala gets four more years, the entire country will be turned into a migrant camp, and that’s what happening.”
Polls show a close race between Trump and Harris in Arizona, with the former president having a 1.4% lead, <a href="https://election.dailywire.com/?_gl=1*1o29wl3*_gcl_au*Mzg4MjUzNzYyLjE3MjcyNjczMDI.*_ga*MjExMDc1MjEyMy4xNzE5NDkwOTk4*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTcyODkwODUyMy40NjAuMS4xNzI4OTA4NTI0LjU5LjAuMA.." target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to an average of 50 polls.

Donald Trump Campaigns For President In Arizona’s Prescott Valley

Border Patrol Union Urges Americans To Vote For Trump To End ‘The Chaos’

Arizona

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-patrol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Border Patrol</a> agents are sounding the alarm about increased child exploitation at the southern border, where children as young as 8 years old have been found drugged and “recycled” by smugglers.
In recent weeks, authorities have rescued numerous children at the border from smugglers, border patrol sources have told the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/us-news/kids-are-being-drugged-and-trafficked-into-the-us-border-patrol/">New York Post</a>. 
In one instance, a woman traveling with two children, ages 8 and 11, was found to have drugged the minors with sleeping pills. The woman was not related to the children, though she tried to pose as their mother. The authentic birth certificates she showed authorities were not for the children she was traveling with. 
Border agents, in another case, rescued a child who had similarly been “heavily dosed with sleep aids to prevent him from talking” to authorities, the Post report says. Those traffickers had birth certificates for other children, too.
Agents say smugglers are using children numerous times, or “recycling&#8221; them, to pose as family units and try to gain entry to the U.S. 
One border patrol source told the Post that at the height of an immigration influx, they had to “let family units in.” He said after a while, agents noticed the same children cycling through, but with different “parents.”
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 “I hate thinking about it, because there were thousands of kids, and who knows where they all ended up,&#8221; the source said.
There have been <a href="https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/border-crime/cruz-says-wristbands-smugglers-use-to-track-migrants-are-like-leg-irons/">reports</a> for years about migrants wearing wristbands that correspond with how much money they owe cartels for helping them get to the US. Elected officials have highlighted this exploitation, specifically to children, and urged for increased border security.
“Along the southern border, you see thousands of these wristbands because the illegal immigrants wear them,&#8221; Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href="https://x.com/TheThe1776/status/1640849576121991168/video/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas last year, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. 
&#8220;Every color corresponds to how many thousands of dollars they owe the cartels,&#8221; the senator continued. &#8220;You have turned these cartels into multibillion-dollar criminal organizations. And these are modern-day leg irons, because these are children being sold into sex slavery.”
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Senator Ted Cruz lashed out at Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: “…What are these wrist bands? …These are modern day leg irons because these are children being sold in to Sex slavery and you don’t even know what they are… Do you know how many children have been sold into Sex… <a href="https://t.co/5v7JIVo7ky">pic.twitter.com/5v7JIVo7ky</a>
— ꪻꫝể ꪻꫝể (@TheThe1776) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheThe1776/status/1640849576121991168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
The exploitation is happening to young migrants after the Biden-Harris administration is quickly placing them with sponsors, too. 
Muckraker <a href="https://x.com/realmuckraker/status/1838955113718722583" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a video this week of first-hand accounts of young migrants who were placed with sponsors and suffered. One minor said her sponsor is forcing her to pay her $10,000 for taking her in. Another young female, who ended up temporarily homeless, described a similar experience.
“She would tell me that if I didn’t have money for rent, she would kick me out,&#8221; the minor said. &#8220;And to this day, she’s still charging me $4,000 for my trip from Honduras.”
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We Found the Biden-Harris Administration&#8217;s Missing Children | FIRST-HAND TESTIMONIES FROM CHILDREN WHO WERE TRAFFICKED IN AMERICA
We tracked down some of the 320,000 illegal alien children lost by the Biden-Harris administration.
During the course of our investigation, we… <a href="https://t.co/VO3XaOIe0o">pic.twitter.com/VO3XaOIe0o</a>
— Muckraker.com (@realmuckraker) <a href="https://twitter.com/realmuckraker/status/1838955113718722583?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
Last year, it was initially reported that <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-orr-director-fails-to-answer-questions-about-85000-lost-unaccompanied-alien-children-flawed-vetting-of-sponsors-and-more%EF%BF%BC/">85,000 unaccompanied migrant children</a> were unaccounted for, or lost, by HHS. The number is currently estimated at 320,000.
Due to the migrant influx, the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) has been overwhelmed, and Republicans say the department is prioritizing the speedy release of migrant children over their safety, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-move-to-loosen-oversight-of-sponsors-that-take-and-often-lose-migrant-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire&#8217;s Luke Rosiak</a> reported.
Still, Senate Democrats are working to loosen oversight of child migrant sponsorship. Under the proposed “<a href="https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/s4393/BILLS-118s4393is.xml">Children’s Safe Welcome Act of 2024</a>,” HHS would have to make its decision about whether to release a child to a proposed sponsor within just seven days of receiving an application.

Migrants cross the border to USA

Smugglers Are Increasingly Drugging And Exploiting Migrant Children At Souther Border: Report