President Donald Trump’s first-week winning streak added to a benchmark of success as the numbers came in on illegal border crossings which were reportedly “falling off a cliff.”
During his administration, now-former President Joe Biden had often claimed he’d done all he could to secure the border. In one week’s time, Trump proved that argument to be hogwash as he not only ramped up deportation efforts but also brought single-day illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border down to triple digits.
Reporting on the steadily trending decline in illegal immigrants crossing the border following the final days of Biden’s reign as Trump kept his word on clamping down, Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin detailed on X, “Per sources, Border Patrol recorded just 582 illegal crossings at the southern border yesterday, with not a single one of the nine sectors hitting 200.”
“I’ve never seen anything this low in all of my border coverage. The numbers were already flat/low in Biden’s final week, bouncing between 1,200-1,400 illegal crossings daily, but the numbers have been falling off a cliff since Trump took office,” he added.
NEW: Per sources, Border Patrol recorded just 582 illegal crossings at the southern border yesterday, with not a single one of the nine sectors hitting 200.
I’ve never seen anything this low in all of my border coverage. The numbers were already flat/low in Biden’s final week,…— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 27, 2025
Explaining that Friday through Sunday had 665, 731, and 582 illegal crossings respectively, Melugin went on to note, “To put this into perspective, at the height of the border crisis in December 2023, Border Patrol hit a record high 11,000+ illegal crossings across the border in a single day, with the Del Rio sector alone getting 4,000+.”
The correspondent further detailed that only 60 crossings were said to have been made in the Del Rio sector on Sunday.
Those numbers continued a downward trend from the first three days of the second Trump administration that recorded 1,073, 736, and 714 border encounters as, in addition to declaring a national emergency at the border, the president designated the drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
The commander-in-chief’s efforts to restore America’s national sovereignty also included his deployment of some 1,500 troops to the southern border as the president flirted with the idea of dispatching new IRS agents to aid in the effort.
“On day one, I immediately halted the hiring of any new IRS agents,” Trump said while speaking in Las Vegas Saturday. “They hired, or tried to hire, 88,000 new workers to go after you, and we’re in the process of developing a plan to either terminate all of them or maybe we’ll move them to the border.”
‘How about just no tax?’ Trump mulls moving Biden’s 90K strong IRS army to defend border, or he may just fire them https://t.co/cJe20lmwCc
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) January 27, 2025
Joining Fox News host Sean Hannity Monday, border czar Tom Homan spoke to the potential for escalating violence from the cartels amid the shifting dynamics at the border.
“They’ve taken gunfire, and it’s going to get worse, Sean, because President Trump’s going to seal that border,” Homan told the host of “Hannity” as there had been reports of a cartel shootout with Border Patrol agents. “He declared them a terrorist organization. We got the whole government going to dismantle these people and wipe them off the face of the earth. They’re not going to go lightly.”
“We’re taking them out of the trafficking business. We’re taking them out of the smuggling business, and we’re taking them out of the dope business. There’s going to be more violence on the southwest border,” he went on.
As of Monday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had also marked their highest total of arrests and detainers of Trump’s first week with 1,179 illegal aliens taken into custody and 853 lodged detainers in a single day, bringing the cumulative total to around 3,500 arrests.
— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) January 28, 2025
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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