Posted on Wednesday, October 8, 2025
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by Alan Jamison
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The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that illegal border crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border are at their lowest annual level since 1970 – setting a 55-year historic low.
CBS News reported that U.S. Border Patrol agents “recorded nearly 238,000 apprehensions of migrants crossing the southern border illegally in fiscal year 2025, which began in October of last year and ended on Sept. 30.” This is the lowest since 1970, when approximately 202,000 illegal aliens were apprehended.
“President Donald J. Trump’s relentless commitment to securing our homeland has crushed illegal crossings at the southern border to the lowest level in over 50 years — another historic victory for American sovereignty and safety under President Trump’s leadership,” the White House said in a statement.
Even more astonishingly, of the 238,000 illegal aliens apprehended in fiscal year 2025, more than 60 percent of them were apprehended during the last three months of the Biden administration. CBS News also reported that “Border Patrol agents assigned to the southern border have recorded fewer than 9,000 apprehensions each month” during Trump’s first full eight months in office.
The current situation represents a stark reversal from the Biden administration, when border crossings reached historic highs. Border Patrol encountered and apprehended a record 2.2 million illegal aliens in fiscal year 2022, which was “almost 10 times the levels recorded in 2025.” In some months, Border Patrol was apprehending more illegal crossers in a single day than are now being apprehended in an entire month.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson explained that Trump has fulfilled his 2024 campaign promise to protect America’s southern border.
“President Trump has overwhelmingly delivered on his promise to secure our Southern Border,” Jackson said. “As a result, Americans are safer — unvetted criminal illegal aliens and dangerous drugs are no longer pouring over our border unchecked. And for all the Democrats who claimed it was impossible to secure the border or that they needed new policy, turns out all we needed was a new President.”
Trump’s success also proves correct his repeated assertion that all that was ever needed to secure the border was a president who was willing to use the powers of his office to enforce existing immigration law. The Biden administration had repeatedly blamed vague “root causes” for its inability to stem the flood of 10-20 million illegal aliens that crossed under its watch.
“Soon after Mr. Trump took office for a second time, his administration moved to seal and militarize the southern border, closing down the American asylum system using emergency powers, dispatching thousands of soldiers to repel illegal crossings and shutting down Biden-era programs that allowed some migrants to enter the U.S. legally,” CBS reported.
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) Executive Director Dale Wilcox and Deputy Executive Director Matt O’Brien published an op-ed last month stating that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem also deserves immense credit for the Trump administration’s success.
“Ms. Noem’s most striking accomplishment is the transformation of the southern border from a zone of anarchy into a secure, effectively policed international boundary,” Wilcox and O’Brien said. “Homeland Security data shows that daily encounters with illegal aliens have plummeted by an astonishing 93% while daily apprehensions have dropped by 96%. Perhaps most impressive, for the past four consecutive months, zero illegal aliens have been released into the country.”
They also added that DHS “facilitated the exit of more than two million illegal aliens” in less than 250 days. The two explained that the Trump administration “is now on pace to break deportation records, potentially marking the highest number of deportations in a single year in U.S. history.”
Trump’s remarkable success at securing the border in a matter of weeks – and keeping it secure – remains perhaps the greatest accomplishment of his second term so far. While most corporate media outlets remain reluctant to report on it, the American people, particularly those in border communities, are finally breathing a sigh of relief.
Alan Jamison is the pen name of a political writer with extensive experience writing for several notable politicians and news outlets.
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