It&#8217;s Earth Day, and the White House is trying to fix a toxic and smelly environmental issue on the nation&#8217;s southern border.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday that the Trump administration is urging the Mexican government to do more to stop sewage from flowing across the border and into the United States. She highlighted President Donald Trump&#8217;s desire to &#8220;do what&#8217;s right&#8221; for the environment.
During Tuesday&#8217;s press briefing, Leavitt responded to a question from Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan and discussed the work of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin, who is in San Diego pushing for the Mexican government to stop the flow of sewage into the United States.
&#8220;Administrator Zeldin met with his Mexican counterpart to discuss steps Mexico needs to take to ensure the water entering the United States is clean and safe, and he&#8217;s holding a press conference in San Diego today with elected officials and local stakeholders on the Tijuana River sewage crisis,&#8221; Leavitt said. &#8220;I would also add from the president himself, he has always maintained he wants America to have the cleanest air and the cleanest water, and we want to do what&#8217;s right for our environment and for our earth.&#8221;
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What does the White House have planned for Earth Day? <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MaryMargOlohan</a>:
&quot;[President Trump] has always maintained he wants America to have the cleanest air and the cleanest water, and we want to do what&#39;s right for our environment and for our earth.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/nrNinIXu8A">pic.twitter.com/nrNinIXu8A</a>
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Raw sewage from Mexico has traveled into the United States through the Tijuana River Watershed &#8220;for decades,&#8221; according to Zeldin, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/21/us-news/epas-zeldin-demands-end-to-mexican-sewage-flooding-across-border/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The issue has raised concerns about &#8220;beach closures, degradation of the Tijuana River Valley, and concerns of public health, air quality,&#8221; Zeldin added. Trump&#8217;s EPA administrator met with Mexican Environmental Secretary Alicia Bárcena to discuss the crisis.
Trump <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/work-starts-to-stop-sewage-flows-into-california-from-mexico/2020/09/02/b8675f3e-ed86-11ea-bd08-1b10132b458f_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> to resolve the Tijuana sewage issue during his first administration, completing a $10.6 million project to prevent millions of gallons of sewage from entering the Tijuana River. Zeldin said on Monday that the crisis &#8220;needs to end.&#8221;
“[T]here’s nowhere more important for me to be tomorrow than on the border in California dealing with this very important public health and environmental crisis,” he added.

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A new Republican House bill would prevent illegal aliens from ever attaining citizenship, creating a new deterrent to illegal immigration into the United States.
The legislation, called the “No Citizenship for Alien Invaders Act,” was proposed by Representative Cory Mills (R-FL) and seeks to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 to state that “no alien who enters the United States unlawfully shall be eligible for naturalization.”
“Under the Biden administration, we saw more than 10 million encounters at our borders, a crisis exacerbated by reckless catch-and-release policies that allowed criminals who broke our laws to remain in the United States,” Mills <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/03/27/us-news/house-gop-bill-would-bar-illegal-entrants-to-us-from-ever-getting-citizenship/">charged</a>. “President Trump has made it clear that anyone that tries to unlawfully undermine, exploit, or bypass our immigration system is a criminal.”
The legislation is also being co-sponsored by Reps. Josh Breechen (R-OK), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), and Andy Harris (R-MD). The Republicans say they hope to get the legislation to the president&#8217;s desk by Memorial Day.
“America is a nation of laws, and if we allow those laws to be subverted by illegal aliens who have no constitutional right to be here in the first place, then we will cease to be a nation,” Breechen stated.
The new legislation is the latest move from House Republicans to attempt to deter migrants from illegally entering the United States. Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) proposed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-congressman-to-introduce-bill-limiting-birthright-citizenship-bolster-trump-executive-order">legislation</a> in January that would end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, a move that the Congressman said would end “birth tourism.”
“It’s going to have a huge impact on our immigration system because it’s going to close loopholes that exploit birthright citizenship, and discourage illegal immigration and end the misuse of this really, this completely misinterpreted privilege,” Babin also said when he announced his legislation.
That bill came just after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that also sought to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens. That order has since been embroiled in a legal battle.
Illegal border crossings have plummeted during the first months of the new Trump administration, with Vice President JD Vance visiting the southern border earlier this month to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vance-does-victory-lap-at-border-all-it-took-was-a-new-president">celebrate</a> a “98 percent reduction of border crossings.”

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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?
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“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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The Pentagon has deployed roughly 3,000 active duty troops to bolster security at the southern border of the United States.
A Stryker Brigade Combat Team, including its Stryker vehicles, is set to arrive at the southern border in “the coming weeks,” according to the Defense Department. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the troops to the border to “to reinforce and expand current border security operations to seal the border and protect the territorial integrity of the United States,” a Defense spokesman said.
“[T]heir deployment underscores the Department&#8217;s unwavering dedication to working alongside the Department of Homeland Security to secure our southern border and maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States under President Trump&#8217;s leadership,” Defense spokesman Sean Parnell said in a <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4086539/dod-statement-on-deployment-of-stryker-brigade-combat-team-to-help-secure-our-s/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
Hegseth approved the order directing the Stryker team to the border on Friday, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/01/hegseth-border-troops-mexico-stryker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>. The Stryker team will be bolstered by troops that specialize in engineering, intelligence, and public affairs.
The Trump administration has taken a more aggressive stance toward policing immigration at the southern border and combatting the influence of drug cartels on the Mexican side. In a January 31 phone call between Hegseth and Mexican officials, the Defense secretary warned that the United States may take unilateral military action to deal with the cartels unless the Mexican government cracks down on the criminal organizations, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-mexico-drug-cartel-tariff-hegseth-military-action-5f507ab0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
Mexican officials interpreted the phone call as a warning that the United States military might start operating on Mexican soil to combat the drug cartels, a move that Mexican officials have said would undermine Mexican sovereignty.
“We are dead serious about 100% OPERATIONAL CONTROL of the southern border,” Hegseth said in a Saturday post on social media.
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We are dead serious about 100% OPERATIONAL CONTROL of the southern border. <a href="https://t.co/5bzvEQ8qPu">https://t.co/5bzvEQ8qPu</a>
&mdash; Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteHegseth/status/1895918496569328056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Illegal crossings at the southern border have plummeted since President Donald Trump took office in January. Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/invasion-of-our-country-is-over-u-s-records-record-low-number-of-illegal-entries-in-february" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrated</a> some of the most recent numbers on social media over the weekend.
“The month of February, my first full month in Office, had the LOWEST number of Illegal Immigrants trying to enter our Country in History – BY FAR!” Trump said. “There were only 8,326 apprehensions of Illegals by Border Patrol at the U.S.-Mexico Border, all of whom were quickly ejected from our Nation or, when necessary, prosecuted for crimes against the United States of America.”
“This means that very few people came – The Invasion of our Country is OVER,” he added. “In comparison, under Joe Biden, there were 300,000 Illegals crossing in one month, and virtually ALL of them were released into our Country.”

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President Donald Trump revealed on Saturday that the United States experienced by far the lowest number of illegal alien encounters at the border in history — a major victory for the new administration.
&#8220;The month of February, my first full month in Office, had the LOWEST number of Illegal Immigrants trying to enter our Country in History – BY FAR!&#8221; Trump posted on social media. &#8220;There were only 8,326 apprehensions of Illegals by Border Patrol at the U.S.-Mexico Border, all of whom were quickly ejected from our Nation or, when necessary, prosecuted for crimes against the United States of America.&#8221;
&#8220;This means that very few people came – The Invasion of our Country is OVER,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;In comparison, under Joe Biden, there were 300,000 Illegals crossing in one month, and virtually ALL of them were released into our Country.&#8221;
He added that the border was closed to all illegal aliens and that anyone who dares to illegally enter will &#8220;face significant criminal penalties and immediate deportation.&#8221;
To put the numbers in perspective, there were times during Joe Biden&#8217;s presidency where there were 8,000-11,000 illegal aliens coming into the country on a single day.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in a subsequent statement that the administration would have &#8220;100% operational control&#8221; of the border, something that would likely be a first in American history.
&#8220;As directed by President Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the deployment of a Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) and General Support Aviation Battalion to reinforce and expand current border security operations to seal the border and protect the territorial integrity of the United States, a priority for the President,&#8221; Hegseth said.
He added, &#8220;These forces will arrive in the coming weeks and their deployment underscores the Department&#8217;s unwavering dedication to working alongside the Department of Homeland Security to secure our southern border and maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States under President Trump&#8217;s leadership.&#8221;
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem added in a statement that America&#8217;s message to the world was simple: &#8220;Do not come to our country illegally.&#8221;
&#8220;If you do, we will find you, arrest you, and send you back,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Thank you President @realDonaldTrump for your strong leadership and to our brave @CBP officers and agents for keeping America safe. We’re just getting started.&#8221;
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February was the lowest month in recorded history for encounters at our border. The world is hearing our message: do not come to our country illegally. If you do, we will find you, arrest you, and send you back.
Thank you President <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> for your strong leadership and… <a href="https://t.co/m6OMiG32Dm">pic.twitter.com/m6OMiG32Dm</a>
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) <a href="https://twitter.com/Sec_Noem/status/1895919691236790333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2025</a></blockquote>

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‘Invasion Of Our Country Is Over’: U.S. Sees Record Low Number Of Illegal Entries In February

There was a time in my life when I lived in the shadow of terror — not just as a distant observer, but as someone who felt its grip firsthand. I was born into a world where radical Islam was not just a belief system, but a way of life — a force that dictated what I could wear, how I could think, who I could marry, and whether I lived or died. I have seen the face of oppression up close. I have felt the cold breath of death whispering lies of hopelessness into my soul.
And yet, by God’s grace, I escaped. I ran from that life and stepped onto foreign soil, hoping to leave the nightmare behind. But the nightmare was not confined to one land, it has followed me. It has followed us all.
I came to America believing I had reached a place of true freedom — a nation that stood tall in the face of tyranny. Today, however, the more I watch, the more I realize America is sleeping.
I see the same signs I saw growing up. I recognize the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/radical-islams-long-game-of-propaganda-in-the-west-is-over-because-of-trump">rhetoric</a>, the infiltration, and the subtle shift in public sentiment that paves the way for radical ideologies to take root. America needs to wake up.
<h3>Telltale Signs Of Radical Infiltration</h3>
I spent years brainwashed by radical Islam — a system that taught me to see the world through the lens of hatred, victimhood, and power. And now, I see the same toxic poison seeping into the West.
The warning signs are clear:
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<li>Weaponized victimhood: Radical groups manipulate emotions to justify violence. They claim oppression while seeking to destroy the very system that offers them refuge.</li>
<li>The rise of anti-American and anti-Semitic rhetoric: This is no accident. College campuses, media outlets, and even political leaders amplify messages that erode national unity and biblical truth.</li>
<li>Propaganda disguised as tolerance: What begins as an appeal for “understanding” slowly turns into a demand for compliance.</li>
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This is not speculation. I have witnessed this same strategy destroy nations. I have watched entire governments bow down to ideologies that despise them, only to be consumed by the very monster they tried to appease.
<h3>Why The Resistance To Border Security?</h3>
Why is there such a backlash against strengthening America’s borders? The answer is simple: When light is shined into darkness, the enemy panics.
In the <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2028&amp;version=NIV">book of Acts</a>, the Bible shares a story about the Apostle Paul becoming shipwrecked on the island of Malta. When Paul gathers wood and builds a fire, a hidden viper lunges and bites his hand. The fire exposed what had been hidden — a deadly, silent enemy, slithering beneath the surface. This is exactly what is happening today.
When leadership enforces stricter immigration policies, the vipers slither out, <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/voices/hamas-mask-slips-evil-exposed-with-israeli-hostage-returns.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealing their true colors</a>. When corruption is called out, the ones who benefit from it are the loudest in their opposition.
For too long, our enemies have gleefully watched America, knowing we were too distracted, too divided, too passive to see what was happening right in front of us. The moment we begin to take action, however, they cry out in rage.
Make no mistake: they are afraid because they know their time is running out.
<h3>The Cost Of Weak Immigration Policies</h3>
I know what it’s like to be a desperate immigrant seeking freedom. I also know what it’s like to live in a nation destroyed by lawlessness.
America’s weak and lawless immigration policies have:
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<li>Allowed radical jihadists to walk freely into our cities</li>
<li>Enabled human trafficking and child exploitation at unprecedented levels</li>
<li>Weakened national identity, making Americans question national patriotism</li>
<li>Provided sanctuary for those who seek to destroy us from within</li>
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This is not about hate. This is not about closing doors to the needy. This is about preserving a nation that was built on biblical values and protecting the people who call it home. If we do not act now, we may not recognize America in 10 years.
<h3>What Must Be Done?</h3>
Many Americans do not recognize the warning signs because they have never lived under a radical regime. America cannot afford to remain blind any longer. It is time for stronger border security. It is not racist or unloving to protect our home.
It is also time for American Christians to take a stand. This is not just a political battle; it is spiritual warfare. It&#8217;s time for the Church to wake up. Yes, Christians are called to love the foreigner, but we are also called to protect our borders and to stand for righteousness, even when the world calls us intolerant. We are called to expose darkness, not coexist with it.
As the Apostle Paul <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ephesians%205&amp;version=NIV">wrote</a>, “Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.” This is our moment. The fire has been lit. The vipers are being exposed.
The battle for America’s soul is not over. The question is: Will we fight? Or will we simply go back to sleep?
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Işik Abla is the President and CEO of <a href="http://isikabla.com/">Işik Abla Ministries</a> (IAM). Abla was born in Turkey and raised as a Muslim. She eventually fled to America. Işık Abla Ministries leverages the power of TV and radio broadcasting, social media, and innovation to preach the Gospel in Turkish, Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Indonesian, and English.
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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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.”
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President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, revealed a statistic on Presidents&#8217; Day that indicates the United States is successfully cracking down on illegal crossings in a way not seen in decades.
&#8220;In the last 24 hours the US Border Patrol has encountered a total of 229 aliens across the entire southwest border. That is down from a high of over 11,000 a day under [President Joe] Biden,&#8221; Homan <a href="https://x.com/RealTomHoman/status/1891483288398975326" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X on Monday. &#8220;I started as a Border Patrol Agent in 1984 and I don’t remember the numbers ever being that low. President Trump promised a secure border and he is delivering.&#8221;
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In the last 24 hours the US Border Patrol has encountered a total of 229 aliens across the entire southwest border. That is down from a high of over 11,000 a day under Biden. I started as a Border Patrol Agent in 1984 and I don’t remember the numbers ever being that low.…
&mdash; Thomas D. Homan (@RealTomHoman) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealTomHoman/status/1891483288398975326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Journalists, elected officials, and others reacted on X to Homan&#8217;s post.
Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin, who has covered the immigration issue over the years, <a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1891506905375223998" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>: &#8220;229 across the entire southern border. Just wild. I would have trouble finding any illegal aliens if I went down to the border right now.&#8221;
&#8220;These results are astounding,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1891544351018274925" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott. &#8220;It’s great to have a REAL Border Czar and a President who enforces immigration laws.&#8221;
&#8220;The first time I was in the RGV, I saw almost 300 illegal immigrants in a few hours in one area,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1891501329371017526" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> The Blaze correspondent Julio Rosas, referring to the Rio Grande Valley Sector. &#8220;Then it jumped to over 500 illegals at one time. There is a lot left to do with border security/immigration, but these numbers are a huge victory for the Trump administration.&#8221;
&#8220;For four years, Joe Biden let chaos rule at the border, ignored [GOP governors] who demanded action, and made every excuse under the sun. I’m glad we now have an administration that’s focused on protecting our country,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/BrianKempGA/status/1891528986108272741" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp.
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Columnist Brian Karem, who has a history of being critical of Trump, <a href="https://x.com/BrianKarem/status/1891542467645714488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>: &#8220;Misleading. How many didn’t you encounter? You don’t know. Also if you were understaffed then of course you’d run into fewer. Also, I checked three different Border Patrol stations in Texas alone. All three reported MORE than that number in the last 24 hours.&#8221;
&#8220;The drastic decrease has as much to do with the tone of the messaging as actual policy. Migrants (rightly) believed they would be rewarded for crossing the border once Biden was elected so they rushed to do it. Now the message is that they will be deported so they aren’t bothering to come. The numbers speak for themselves,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/AGHamilton29/status/1891495823642398801" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> AG Hamilton, a popular conservative commentary account on X. &#8220;This not only limits illegal immigration, saves a lot of taxpayer money, and protects Americans from the impacts of unvetted migration, but also saves a lot of migrants from being taken advantage of by human traffickers.&#8221;
The White House listed Homan&#8217;s announcement in an email highlighting some of Trump&#8217;s accomplishments during the first several weeks of his second administration.
&#8220;In his first month back in office, President Donald J. Trump has taken extraordinary action to usher in a new Golden Age of America – through border security, deregulation, government accountability, and leveling the playing field for American workers, to name a few,&#8221; the White House said. &#8220;The positive effects of President Trump’s policies continue to be felt across the country.&#8221;
Later on Monday, Homan posted more figures to X, these being focused on detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
&#8220;Interior arrests by ICE have increased more than 137% under President Trump,&#8221; Homan <a href="https://x.com/RealTomHoman/status/1891592453897191690" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Arrests of aliens with criminal convictions have doubled under President Trump. The arrests of illegal alien gang members has also doubled. Our streets and neighborhoods are that much safer under President Trump. We are less than a month in and have more to do.&#8221;
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Interior arrests by ICE have increased more than 137% under President Trump. Arrests of aliens with criminal convictions have doubled under President Trump. The arrests of illegal alien gang members has also doubled. Our streets and neighborhoods are that much safer under…
&mdash; Thomas D. Homan (@RealTomHoman) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealTomHoman/status/1891592453897191690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump’s Border Czar Marks Presidents’ Day With Statistic That Puts Biden Admin To Shame

President Donald Trump is proving how serious he is about targeting the Mexican drug cartels that he has designated as terrorist organizations, as the U.S. military is reportedly using high-tech spy planes to monitor the southern border.
At least 18 missions have been flown over the southwestern U.S. and around the Baja California Peninsula in the past two weeks, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/10/politics/us-spy-planes-mexican-drug-cartels/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Eleven of the flights used Navy P-8s, and one used the famed U-2 spy plane initially used to spy on the former Soviet Union.
“I think the cartels would be foolish to take on the military, but we know they’ve taken on the Mexican military before. But now we have the United States military,” border czar Tom Homan stated last week. “Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely, because the cartels are making record amounts of money.”
In late December, Mexico’s leftist president seemingly attempted to take away any chance Trump could order the use of military force against the infamous drug cartels that control much of Mexico and traffic lethal drugs across the American border. President Claudia Sheinbaum <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/trump-mexico-drug-cartel-fentanyl-us-military-fb9f193c?mod=hp_lead_pos4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> a news conference, “There won’t be an invasion. It’s not going to happen.”
Trump had said, “All foreign gang members will be expelled and I will immediately designate the [drug] cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. I will do so immediately.”
Trump’s choice for national security advisor, hard-core conservative Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), <a href="https://waltz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=659">co-</a><a href="https://waltz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=659" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> legislation in January 2023 calling for an “Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against Mexican cartels for trafficking lethal fentanyl and other related activities that have caused destabilization in the Western Hemisphere.”
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Defense Secretary, <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-invasion-mexico-cartels-rejected-165339125.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the cartels are “terrorist-like organizations poisoning our population. &#8230; If it takes military action, that’s what it may take, eventually. Obviously, you’re gonna have to be smart about it. Obviously, the precision strikes. But if you put the fear in the minds of the drug lords, at least as a start, [and] they can’t operate in the open with impunity, [it] changes the way they operate.”
Last October, a news report revealed that the brutal Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico had &#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> for its members 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.

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