Trump Policies Slash Illegal Immigration, Thousands Make “Hard Trek Back to Their Countries”

President Trump’s measures to mitigate the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis he inherited from the Biden administration are working and have led to an impressive 93% decline in migrants apprehended at ports of entry since his January 20 inauguration. The U.S. Border Patrol also reported an 85% drop in apprehensions along the southwest border from January 21 through January 31 compared to the same period in 2024. Newly released federal data reveals that just 61,465 illegal aliens were captured at the southern border during the entire month of January, a 36% decline from the previous month. A national Spanish-language news network reported days ago that restrictions imposed by Trump are deterring migrants who have made it to Mexico’s southeastern city of Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, from continuing the long journey north through Mexico to the U.S. southern border. Instead, many are returning home to Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia, and Venezuela. “In particular they are discouraged by massive deportation policies and the closure of the border with thousands of military personnel deployed and the elimination of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s CBP One app that allowed asylum solicitation in the United States from the south of Mexico,” the story states.

The “Donald Trump Effect” has forced Mexico to invest millions of dollars to build shelters that accommodate the flow of migrants deported by the administration, a Latin American business journal reports this month. “The recent immigration policies implemented by Donald Trump increased massive deportations towards Mexico,” the publication writes, adding that Mexican authorities are looking to mitigate the “humanitarian crisis” triggered by the increase in the flow of migrants that are being returned because it has overwhelmed existing shelters. The new project will offer refuge and assistance to people affected by the “strict immigration policies of the actual U.S. administration,” the article states. One American newspaper chain reports that an estimated 350,000 migrants are “trapped in Mexico” because the U.S. border has been closed by “drastic measures put in place by the Trump administration.” Thousands are making the “hard trek back to their countries,” the report adds, with some already crossing in Guatemala while others try to earn enough money for the trip home.

The apprehension of illegal immigrants inside the United States has also skyrocketed with an increase of more than 137% since Trump moved back into the White House, according to figures released this week by Border Czar Tom Homan. “Arrests of aliens with criminal convictions have doubled under President Trump,” Homan writes in a social media post, adding that arrests of illegal alien gang members have also doubled. Homan, a former New York police officer and Border Patrol agent who served as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) executive associate director of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) under Obama, confirms that “our streets and neighborhoods are that much safer under President Trump.” In 2015 Homan received the Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service, which is bestowed each year by the commander-in-chief and is considered the nation’s highest civil service award. Among his celebrated accomplishments was the removal of 534,000 criminal aliens from the United States.

The Trump border measures came at a critical time for national security as well as public safety. Under Biden’s disastrous open border policies, a ghastly 7.6 million illegal aliens were welcomed into the country, including nearly 2 million who sneaked over the border without getting arrested. Among them were more than 1.7 million from countries that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has determined pose a national security threat to the United States. They are labeled Special Interest Aliens (SIA) by the government and come from some 26 nations, including Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Syria, and Turkey, China, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela. The Biden administration also allowed over half a million illegal aliens with criminal histories to roam freely in the United States by putting them on an ICE “non-detained docket.” Recent figures revealed that 435,719 had convictions and another 226,847 pending charges. Nearly 15,000 of the freed illegal aliens have been convicted of or charged with murder, more than 20,000 with sexual assault, 60,268 with burglary, larceny, or robbery, 105,146 with assault, 16,820 with weapon offenses, 3,971 with commercialized sex crimes and 3,372 with kidnapping.

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