Major Drop in Daily Encounters With Illegal Immigrants, Border Czar Says
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Daily encounters at the southern border have significantly plummeted, according to President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan.
“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 said in a statement on X. “I started as a Border Patrol Agent in 1984 and I don’t remember the numbers ever being that low.”
Homan said that Trump pledged a secure border, and he is delivering on that promise.
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