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White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller celebrated a 95 percent reduction in illegal immigrants at the southern border on Thursday.
Miller’s comments were shared with reporters during a White House briefing concerning the first 11 days after Trump was inaugurated last month.
“President Trump, within days of taking office, cut border crossings 95 percent and those few who have dared to cross are being either prosecuted or deported,” Miller said.
“The criminals are going home. The border is sealed shut. America is safe, sovereign, proud, and free. We are a nation that everyone in the world understands — all across this planet — [where] you do not come here illegally, you will not get in, you will go to jail, you will go home, you will not succeed. This is the biggest and most successful change in any area of law enforcement that this nation has ever seen, and he did it in under one month,” he added.
As RSBN previously reported, Trump border czar Tom Homan shared on Monday that illegal border crossings have dropped to the lowest number he can remember in four decades.
Homan shared the update in a post to X on Monday, noting the stark difference between former President Joe Biden’s border policies and Trump’s.
“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,” Homan wrote.
“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,” he added.
The update comes just days after Homan announced that illegal border crossing had fallen by 90 percent compared with the same period last year, according to data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Only 359 illegal migrants per day were caught at the southern border in the first two weeks of February, the lowest number recorded since 1968.
“If you kind of break down the numbers, divide them by 365, we haven’t had numbers this low since the 1960s. So we’re talking 60-year lows if it’s sustained, obviously,” said Mark Krikorian, the executive director at the Center for Immigration Studies.
During the same period last year, officers processed over 4,800 migrants per day.
