Daniel Chaitin – The Daily Wire Feb 17, 2025
President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, revealed a statistic on Presidents’ Day that indicates the United States is successfully cracking down on illegal crossings in a way not seen in decades.
“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 [President Joe] Biden,” Homan said in a post to X on Monday. “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.”
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. I started as a Border Patrol Agent in 1984 and I don’t remember the numbers ever being that low.…
— Thomas D. Homan (@RealTomHoman) February 17, 2025
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Journalists, elected officials, and others reacted on X to Homan’s post.
Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin, who has covered the immigration issue over the years, said: “229 across the entire southern border. Just wild. I would have trouble finding any illegal aliens if I went down to the border right now.”
“These results are astounding,” said Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott. “It’s great to have a REAL Border Czar and a President who enforces immigration laws.”
“The first time I was in the RGV, I saw almost 300 illegal immigrants in a few hours in one area,” said The Blaze correspondent Julio Rosas, referring to the Rio Grande Valley Sector. “Then it jumped to over 500 illegals at one time. There is a lot left to do with border security/immigration, but these numbers are a huge victory for the Trump administration.”
“For four years, Joe Biden let chaos rule at the border, ignored [GOP governors] who demanded action, and made every excuse under the sun. I’m glad we now have an administration that’s focused on protecting our country,” said Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp.
Columnist Brian Karem, who has a history of being critical of Trump, said: “Misleading. How many didn’t you encounter? You don’t know. Also if you were understaffed then of course you’d run into fewer. Also, I checked three different Border Patrol stations in Texas alone. All three reported MORE than that number in the last 24 hours.”
“The drastic decrease has as much to do with the tone of the messaging as actual policy. Migrants (rightly) believed they would be rewarded for crossing the border once Biden was elected so they rushed to do it. Now the message is that they will be deported so they aren’t bothering to come. The numbers speak for themselves,” said AG Hamilton, a popular conservative commentary account on X. “This not only limits illegal immigration, saves a lot of taxpayer money, and protects Americans from the impacts of unvetted migration, but also saves a lot of migrants from being taken advantage of by human traffickers.”
The White House listed Homan’s announcement in an email highlighting some of Trump’s accomplishments during the first several weeks of his second administration.
“In his first month back in office, President Donald J. Trump has taken extraordinary action to usher in a new Golden Age of America – through border security, deregulation, government accountability, and leveling the playing field for American workers, to name a few,” the White House said. “The positive effects of President Trump’s policies continue to be felt across the country.”
Later on Monday, Homan posted more figures to X, these being focused on detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“Interior arrests by ICE have increased more than 137% under President Trump,” Homan said. “Arrests of aliens with criminal convictions have doubled under President Trump. The arrests of illegal alien gang members has also doubled. Our streets and neighborhoods are that much safer under President Trump. We are less than a month in and have more to do.”
Interior arrests by ICE have increased more than 137% under President Trump. Arrests of aliens with criminal convictions have doubled under President Trump. The arrests of illegal alien gang members has also doubled. Our streets and neighborhoods are that much safer under…
— Thomas D. Homan (@RealTomHoman) February 17, 2025
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NHS medics to receive new Humanitarian Medal from King for work in Gaza
Story by Sam Hall NHS medics who have provided care in Gaza will be among the first to receive a new Humanitarian Medal conferred by the King.
The recipients will receive their medals at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.
Among those to be honoured are 14 frontline medical responders associated with British emergency medical charity UK-Med.
What about all those voluntary doctors medics and aid workers killed by israeli sniper
shooting through hospital windows ?
Ex-Trump ambassador claims many more people jailed in UK for free speech than Russia
A former ambassador under Donald Trump’s first administration has claimed that the UK jails more people for saying things the government do not like, than in russia
Carla Sands, former US ambassador to Denmark, interrupted BBC Newsnight host Victoria Derbyshire to declare that more people are in prison for “speaking what they thought was right or had interest online” in the UK than in all of Vladimir Putin’s nation. Article 10 of the Human Rights Act, applicable to England, Scotland, and Wales, protects the right to hold opinions and express them freely without government interference. the only thing you cannot speak of is the jewish holocaust where 6 milion went up the chimney
In Germany a 100 year old woman who lived beside a work camp was jailed repeatedly for saying there were no gas ovens, Ursula Haverbeck became a hero world wide for speaking up
Trump in the White House and signalling he wants the Ukraine conflict to end also makes it less likely the European members of NATO will try to impose an arbitrary border to ban Russian ships from sailing the Baltic to and from its ports there. Finland and Sweden and established member Norway (1949) couldn’t stop Russia from sailing there, but the intention was to cause conflict when Russia “broke the blockade”.
After Trump said America will no longer fight European wars these countries and perhaps a few more would then be up against Russia alone, and they are most unlikely to try that nonsense now.
This all goes to show that removing the American criminals from office was the first step in removing the Mexican criminals from crossing over. IMH opinion, Biden ought to be charged with treason.
Regarding statistics, I still occasionally watch Richie from Boston because besides he’s heavily into God and religion he does have some interesting points. He said in a recent video much of America is praising Elon Musk and his DOGE investigations but they’re missing the bigger picture. Musk is trawling every government office and website and the social media accounts of just about everybody else, and it is one massive data mining exercise, probing into just about every account possible to discover the ins-and-outs of everyone, all to discover pretty-much all there is to know. Richie says it’s not being done for the people.
He said just as elitists do everything in reverse DOGE is e-God.
MM: I don’t trust the DOGE either! I have thought for instance, thought, “Sure, there won’t be taxes on Social Security because there will be no Social Security for millions after the DOGE gets done with them”…and, instead, that money will be channeled into the pockets of the billionaires, right where the “Elites” such as Trump and the DOGE believe it should be.
However, I advise the DOGE and Trump against this, because if they try cutting off Grandma’s Social Security check, even the rednecks will turn against them.