Promise made, promise kept: Trump administration had full year of zero border releases
President Trump has achieved a year of zero illegal immigrant releases at the U.S.-Mexico border, fulfilling a key campaign promise. This policy shift is framed as a significant improvement in national border security compared to the previous administration. Officials from the Trump administration assert that these changes have made the country safer by preventing violent criminals from entering the U.S.
- ▪The Trump administration has maintained a year of zero releases at the U.S.-Mexico border.
- ▪Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin highlighted this achievement as a historic feat for border security.
- ▪Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney S. Scott noted a stark contrast to the previous administration, where over 68,000 illegal aliens were released in a single month.
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While campaigning in 2024, President Donald Trump pledged to fix the nation’s broken immigration system, a system exacerbated by the rogue incompetence of the Biden administration. Now, after 18 months into his second term, Trump has maintained his excellence in border security and upheld his campaign promise regarding illegal immigration, as the Trump administration has achieved a year of zero releases at the U.S.-Mexico border. Whereas the Biden administration wantonly permitted, if not outright encouraged, border security agencies to release illegal immigrants into the United States, Trump has ensured such ineptitudes would not happen under his watch.
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