What We Needed Was a New President: CBP Announces Staggering Drop in Number of Illegal Aliens Released

The Trump administration dropped some good economic news Tuesday as they revealed that blue-collar wages have risen at a record pace since the president took office, and now they have some more good achievements to announce to the American people. In May of 2024, U.S. Customs and Border Protection released 62,000 illegal aliens into the country.

This May, they released… zero. Wow.

Thanks to the tireless efforts and diligent work of the men and women of CBP and the leadership of @POTUS and @Sec_Noem, USBP released 0 (not a single one) illegal aliens into our country in May, down from more than 62,000 in May of last year.

This administration has seen the…
— CBP (@CBP) June 17, 2025

This administration has seen the fastest improvement in American border security of all time.

They posted a statement to their official website saying that encounters had dropped by a staggering 93 percent.

Halting the flow of illegal aliens into the country
Thanks to the good work of the men and women of CBP and the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Noem, CBP is leveraging authorities to take every step to ensure illegal aliens are expediently removed from the country. In May 2025, the U.S. Border Patrol released 0 illegal aliens into our country—a staggering drop from more than 62,000 that USBP was forced to release along the southwest border in May 2024.
In May 2025, the Border Patrol encountered 8,725 illegal aliens crossing the southwest border between ports of entry. This was a 93% decrease from May 2024 when USBP encountered 117,905 aliens. Encounter numbers continue to hold at historic lows, reflecting a border that is more secure, more controlled, and hitting unprecedented levels of operational success.
CBP’s total number of encounters nationwide, including at ports of entry, averaged approximately 952 per day in May 2025—a 2% decrease from April 2025. This was the second lowest average daily number of CBP encounters in history. Along the southwest border in May 2025, CBP’s total number of encounters decreased 93% from May 2024.

It's Working: All Quiet on the Southern Front

The Department of Homeland Security, meanwhile, posted to X Tuesday with a message from DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin saying that if you’re here in this country illegally, it’s time to go:

If you are in this country illegally: LEAVE NOW and self-deport using the CBP Home app.

Use the CBP Home app to take control of your departure and receive financial support to return home. If you don’t, you will be subjected to fines, arrest, deportation and will never be… pic.twitter.com/q6K7gi9wIk
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) June 17, 2025

Use the CBP Home app to take control of your departure and receive financial support to return home. If you don’t, you will be subjected to fines, arrest, deportation and will never be allowed to return.

President Trump was right—we didn’t need a whole barrage of new laws to solve the border crisis, despite what Joe Biden kept trying to tell us. What we needed was to get Biden out of the Oval Office:

President Trump, with a beautiful MIC DROP: "The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president." 🔥 pic.twitter.com/Ih4Q8fSukw
— George (@BehizyTweets) March 5, 2025

Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left's lies, new legislation wasn't needed to secure our border, just a new president.

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