TRUMP SECURES BORDER! Encounters DOWN 94% In Just A Month After Taking Office!

Trump Secures Border Overnight As Southwest Land Border Encounters Down To 11,709, Lowest Ever Since 2000:
https://dailytorch.com/2025/03/trump-secures-border-overnight-as-southwest-land-border-encounters-down-to-11709-lowest-ever-since-2000/

Southwest land border encounters dropped to 11,709 in the February, the first full month of President Donald Trump’s tenure in office, according to data gathered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the lowest ever on record in data dating all the way back to 2000. Compared to one year ago, in Feb. 2024 it was 189,913, down to 11,709, a 93.8 percent decrease in border encounters — showing that President Donald Trump’s decision to immediately deploy the U.S. military to the southern border is having the effect that he was hoping to server as a deterrent and as construction has resumed on the southern border wall that former President Joe Biden left incomplete. A part of the success is also undoubtedly President Trump’s threatened 25 percent tariff on Mexico — an ultimatum leveled before he even took office — that has resulted in Mexico putting 10,000 of its own troops on the U.S.-Mexican border as well. Trump still says there’s more work to be done to keep fentanyl from flowing into the U.S. from both Mexico and Canada, and he paused imposition of the 25 percent tariff on cars from both countries until April but are set to go into effect. President Trump declared a national border emergency on Jan. 20 under the National Emergencies Act. And Trump said the national border emergency requires the use of the military under 10 U.S. Code Sec. 12302. And, like in 2019, Trump is using the emergency to finish construction of the southern border wall under 50 U.S. Code Sec. 1631 and 10 U.S. Code. Sec. 2808. In addition, President Trump declared Tren de Aragua and other drug cartels as terrorist organizations on Jan. 20 by executive order in accordance with 8 U.S. Code Sec. 1189. And on March 15, Trump issued a proclamation invoking the 1798 Alien Enemy Act that the international criminal organization Tren de Aragua, supported by Venezuela, is a “hybrid criminal state”. All this in just two months in office and the results speak for themselves. The contrast from the prior administration of former President Joe Biden is simply stunning, combining data from both the United States Border Patrol encounters and the Office of Field Operations inadmissibles by the Office of Immigration Statistics, there were some 10.8 million border encounters all told from January 2021 to November 2024. It’s almost as if border security were simply a matter of political will — of which Trump appears to have an ample supply.

56 percent of Americans approve of President Donald Trump’s handling of border security and immigration, according to the latest Fox News poll conducted March 14 to March 17, as the poll handed Trump his highest approval rating ever for a Fox poll at 49 percent. That includes majorities approving of Trump’s handling of the border and immigration in almost every demographic: 59 percent of men, 54 percent of women, 58 percent of Whites, 45 percent of Blacks, 51 percent of Hispanics, 51 percent under the age of 30, 54 percent under the age of 45 and 57 percent above the age of 45. And it cuts across party lines to a certain extent, with 51 percent of independents approving, 94 percent of Republicans and 19 percent of Democrats. More Democrats approve than Republicans disapprove — 19 percent to 5 percent, which is the real difference maker in the poll. The public mood measurement from Fox comes as President Trump and his administration seek to defend their aggressive approach to combating illegal immigration and deadly drug trafficking publicly and in federal courts. On March 15, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg sought to curtail via an injunction Trump’s proclamation the same day invoking the 1798 Alien Enemy Act that the international criminal organization Tren de Aragua, supported by Venezuela, is a “hybrid criminal state that is perpetrating an invasion of and predatory incursion into the United States, and which poses a substantial danger to the United States.” The proclamation came the same day that the U.S. removed around 250 such enemy aliens were put on planes and to El Salvador, in whose jurisdiction they now reside. But, here, Trump is not acting arbitrarily. He is executing the laws of the land. President Trump declared Tren de Aragua and other drug cartels as terrorist organizations on Jan. 20 by executive order in accordance with 8 U.S. Code Sec. 1189, “Designation of foreign terrorist organizations.” Is Trump declaring war on the drug cartels?