Vice President JD Vance On Wednesday, he is moving to the southern border, the day after President Donald Trump announced a sharp decline in border crossings in the midst of an increase in border security and internal arrests of illegal immigrants.
Vance toured the border at Eagle Passa in Texas, and will be joined by Defense Minister of Defense Peta Hegsetth and Director of the National Intelligence Tuli Gabbard. Eagle Pass was one of the foci for border crossings at the height of the historical crisis of the border era.
Trump focused his campaign in 2024 on the promise that he would break illegal immigration, and he distributed a number of measures early. On the first day, he signed executive commands to declare national emergency at the border and arrangement of the army. He also ordered the continuation of the construction of the border walls and the end of the policy of probation of Biden.
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of the Congress at the US Capitol on March 4, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Pool via Reuters)
Pentagon quickly arranged the troops and opened the Guantánamo Bay for flights of migrants. Homeland Security Department He removed the limitations in the implementation of the interior and expanded the use of accelerated removal, while the state department provided additional cooperation with countries to restore migrants.
The administration launched a huge interior surgery, where daily arrests regularly affected 1,000+ a day, although officials indicated that they wanted to see the numbers get even higher.
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The administration pointed out the figures that show a sharp increase in internal arrests compared to the Biden era and a sharp decline in the meeting at the border.
In February there were only 8,326 meetings of the southern border, which in February 2024, which is a decline of 189,913. The administration has so far removed more than 55,000 illegal immigrants from the USA
Trump has announced these numbers in the UA Speech to Congress Tuesday night.
General of the Army, General Henry S. Dixon, left, Commander of the North Working Group, discusses the southern border operations with the Marines awarded 1. Combat Engineering Battalion, 1st Marin Division, near San YSIDRO, California, January 28, 2025. (Ministry of Defense)
“A few hours of oath on duty, I declared the national emergency on our southern border and I deployed US military and border patrol to distract the invasion of our country. And what kind of work they did. As a result, illegal border crossings last month were the lowest recorded, ever,” he said.
“They heard my words and they decided not to come.”
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The claim of Democrats and Biden’s administration was also ridiculed that legislation was required to repair the crisis.
“But it turns out that everything we really needed was the new president,” he said.
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In the meantime, the source of the border patrol told Fox News that there were only 271 meetings for the entire southern border on Tuesday, and only 14 in the Del Rio sector in which Vance visits.
Fox News’ Brooke Taylor and Associated Press contributed to this report.
