During Tuesday’s White House briefing to the White House Press Corps, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt provided an update on the Trump administration’s efforts to clamp down on illegal immigration and to bring the border under control. Thumbnail: It’s all working.
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The press secretary reports:
Fox recently reported that a San Diego migrant shelter is closing its doors after saying they have not received new asylum-seeking families or individuals since January 20th. We all know what happened on January 20th, don’t we? And yesterday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that the massive Roosevelt Hotel migrant shelter in Manhattan will shut down in the next few months.
We’re also seeing a reverse migration effect. There are now verified reports from the Associated Press of migrants abandoning their journey to the United States and heading back home. This is the first time the Border Patrol has received these reports since 2020 during President Trump’s first term. The returning migrants claimed in interviews that the new heavy security posture adopted by the Trump administration was a significant reason for their decision to return to the countries of their origin.
Overall, the American people continue to overwhelmingly give President Trump very positive remarks. Nearly every one of President Trump’s policy initiatives are receiving strong majority support. And I have noted that in every briefing since Inauguration Day. Eighty-one percent of Americans support deporting illegal migrant criminals from our nation’s interior. Seventy-six percent of Americans support the DOGE-led efforts of a full-scale investigation to find and eliminate fraud and waste in government expenditures.
The usual suspects, such as “sanctuary” jurisdiction politicians, are resisting, but their efforts are increasingly, day to day, being negated.
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President Trump made clamping down on illegal immigration a major theme of his 2024 campaign (as well as the 2016 and 2020 campaigns) and no one can say he isn’t following through.
There’s plenty left to be done. Anywhere between 15 and 30 million people are in the nation illegally. The administration is (rightly) focusing on known troublemakers; criminals, gang members, and people on the terror watch list. But the larger issue also has to be addressed, and that’s a daunting prospect; just the logistics of finding, detaining, and repatriating as many as 30 million people will be one of the greatest law enforcement exercises in history. But this has to be done; it’s a matter of national security, and it’s a matter of the rule of law. Just as citizens must not be rewarded for breaking the law, so must people in our country illegally not be rewarded by being allowed to remain.
As the saying goes, it’s not just a good idea – it’s the law.
A lot has been done in one month. Imagine what the next 47 months will see accomplished.
Liberal activist judges are doing everything in their power to hamstring the Trump administration as it tries to root out waste, fraud, and abuse. These radical rulings violating our system of checks and balances must not stand.
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