It's amazing what a difference one president can make.
Ever since his appointment by President Donald Trump, Border Czar Tom Homan has been busy driving down illegal border crossings and repatriating illegal aliens out of the United States, and his work is bearing fruit.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 21, 2025
Note that this effort has not yet been underway for a year.
Speaking with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo, Mr. Homan described a recent tour he took of the southern border, in the San Diego area, in Arizona and Texas, and the results he reports are remarkable.
.@RealTomHoman: "I just did a border review in San Diego, Texas, and Arizona... Three days on the southern border, I didn’t see a single illegal alien... three days, not a single illegal alien in my sight... Never seen anything like it in my 40-year career." pic.twitter.com/oTnWpNWMNR
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 21, 2025
He said:
Unprecedented, nothing like this in the history of the county. Look, we got the most secure border in the history of this nation. The most secure ever. And that's based on real data. I just came back... I just did a border review in San Diego, Texas, and Arizona. I toured the border by air, by boat, and by 4-wheel drive. Three days on the southern border, Maria, I didn't see a single illegal alien. And I've been doing this since 1984, even back when I was in back in Border Patrol. Three days without a single illegal alien in my sight. It's the most secure border ever, and by doing that, as you said, it's down 95 percent. How many aliens aren't dying now, making that journey? How many pounds of fentanyl aren't getting in, killing Americans? How many known, suspected terrorists are not crossing that border because the Border Patrol is 100 percent vigilant, on that line, stopping all the entries. It's incredible. Never seen anything like it in my 40-year career.
This is remarkable, and it's good news for the country.
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Compare it to what was going on under the Biden administration:
There is no doubt that a lot of work still needs to be done. As many as 2 million illegal aliens have self-deported, but there are still millions in the country illegally. The ones who self-deported aren't necessarily the ones we really needed to worry about; they took their stipend and free plane ticket and went home. If they want to come back through the legal immigration process, we can and (in many cases) welcome them.
But the real troublesome goblins, the ones who came to smuggle drugs, to take over apartment buildings, to assault our citizenry, they aren't leaving voluntarily. They will have to be hunted down and removed, and the nastier the goblins are, the harder they will be to track down and detain.
It doesn't help that "sanctuary" jurisdictions are helping some of these goblins evade arrest. But there has been at least one good example of what can go wrong with that effort, as well, as our own Nick Arama recently informed us.
This effort will continue. It has to continue. Without a border, we have no nation. Without immigration controls, we have no security.
Fortunately, we have at least three more years to get Joe Biden's open-border mess cleaned up.
Editor’s Note: 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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