President Trump’s border emperor Tom Homan has touted a dramatic decline in the administration of illegal immigrant encounters at the southern border compared to the Biden administration.
Homan took him to X and said the Border Patrol “confronted a total of 229 aliens across the Southwest border.”
“That’s down from the highest number of people a day under Biden, which is more than 11,000,” he said. “I started out as an agent for the Border Patrol in 1984, and I don’t remember that the numbers were so low.”
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Border Emperor Tom Homan talks to reporters at the White House on February 6, 2025 (Reuters/Kevin Lamarck)
“President Trump has promised a safe border and he’s delivering it,” he said.
The Trump administration has launched a historic, massive deportation campaign and has agenda to provide additional border security. Trump has signed an order to resume construction of boundary walls on the first day, limit the ability to claim asylum, declare a national emergency and end the Biden-era parole program.
Major General Henry S. Dixon, left, Marines near San Isidro, California, January 28, 2025, with the US Northern Command working with Homeland Security to add to reduce illegal border intersections. Added security for. (Domestic Defense)
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His administration expanded swift removal, removed restrictions on “sensitive locations” for ice agents, launched nationwide raids, and sued the “sanctuary” jurisdiction.
Fox News Digital reported last week that an arrest of illegal immigrants had skyrocketed. There were 11,791 internal ice halts from January 20th to February 8th, compared to 4,969 cases in the same period in 2024. This is a 137% increase.
Compared to Biden levels last year, illegal immigrant arrests surge under Trump’s ice
Arrests of foreigners with criminal records have skyrocketed nearly 100% from 4,526 in the same period in 2024 to 8,993 Trump this year. Meanwhile, the arrests of fugitives increased from 2,164 to 5,538. This is a 156% increase. Arrests of criminal foreigners in local prisons increased by 59%.
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Fox News also said that at the southern border since the beginning of February, the average daily number of known Gotaways (illegal immigrants who successfully entered the US without worry) plummeted to just 132 a day, with the former president saying It reported a 93% decrease from the highest number. Joe Biden has taken office.
In the “American Newsroom,” Homan was asked when he was likely to run out of targets for illegal criminal immigrants.
“We’ve been criminally convicted and have won almost 600,000 illegal foreigners in the United States, so I won’t be happy until we eradicate all of them,” he says. I did.
Adam Shaw is a political reporter for Fox News Digital, covering mainly immigration and border security.
He can be contacted at adam.shaw2@fox.com or on Twitter.
