Trump’s iron fist crushes number of daily illegal migrant crossings
The Republican administration boasts that daily arrests at the border have fallen below 200, a figure not seen in 15 years
Donald Trump’s offensive against migrants seems to be yielding results. Administration officials have been on a triumphal tour of conservative television networks for a couple of days to boast about a sharp drop in irregular border crossings from Mexico. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has focused on one fact: the detention of only 200 people on Saturday, February 22, along the entire border with Mexico. “That’s the lowest single apprehension day in over 15 years,” Noem said on social media. In contrast, Noem claimed, during the Joe Biden era up to “fifteen, sixteen thousand” encounters were recorded in a single day.
