A nation without borders isn't a nation at all. And to have borders, you have to have people to enforce those borders, especially when you are a nation like the United States. Plenty of people around the world talk a lot of horse squeeze about the United States, but when it comes right down to it, they all want to come here, and during the late, unlamented Biden administration, a lot of them entered illegally, and were given a pat on the head and released.
No longer. Illegal immigration into the United States has slowed to a crawl, and now we learn that the Border Patrol, thanks to Trump's funding priorities, has more agents on staff guarding our borders than they have ever had.
As of this spring, 21,471 Border Patrol agents are now serving, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday. This is the highest staffing level in U.S. Border Patrol’s 102-year history.
CBP's fiscal 2026 budget is about $23 billion, roughly the same as its fiscal 2025 budget. Trump wants to increase that spending to hire more Border Patrol agents and to expand the border wall at the southern border. Some U.S. Senate reconciliation packages proposed over $70 billion for CBP and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
When something's working, you keep doing it. And the Trump administration's border policies are clearly working:
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, under which CBP and ICE are housed, reports that it has deported nearly 900,000 noncitizens who entered the U.S. illegally since Trump took office in January 2025. At least 14 million foreign nationals illegally entered under the Biden administration, The Center Square reported.
“This record-setting achievement highlights the effectiveness of our recruitment efforts,” U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rosario “Pete” Vasquez said. “We are building a stronger workforce every day, and our progress toward 25,000 agents will further enhance our ability to protect our borders and serve the nation.”
There's still a long way to go to get this problem under control, and it's a lot larger than just people trying to cross over the southern and northern borders.
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As many as 850,000 people every year overstay their visas, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS estimates as many as 5 million people have overstayed various visas and remained in the United States, in addition to the 18 to 20 million illegal immigrant border-crossers who yet remain. They come from around the world, not just Latin America. They come from many places unfriendly to the United States: Iran and China, just to name a couple.
There's still a lot of work to be done. But a nation with no borders is no nation at all. The Trump administration clearly understands this, and to be honest, plenty of the Biden minions did as well; a calamity such as happened on the borders under the non-leadership of Joe Biden can't possibly be anything but deliberate. But when you're in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging; in this case, the first thing that needed doing was closing the border. That's done now, thanks in no small part to the expanded Border Patrol.
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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