White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller provides an update on the southern border: “Yes, well, as you know, Mr. President, since you issued your Day One executive orders, border crossings are down approximately 95%.
You talk to agents on the line, and in their entire careers, they’ve never seen crossing days as low as what they’re experiencing right now. The cartels, in fact, are enormously frustrated because they’ve never seen a clampdown like this before in American history. There are people who were working at Border Patrol back when it was INS in the ’80s and ’90s; they’ve never seen a day like this.
That’s because you’ve mobilized the 10th Mountain Division, the Marines, the entire U.S. military—they’re erecting physical miles of barrier, temporary and ultimately permanent, every single day. You have all of your Border Agents pushed to the front line; they’re not doing the humanitarian processing that the Biden admin was doing; they’re doing law enforcement and national security—they’re interdictioning weapons and drugs, they’re interdictioning violent high-threat criminals.
And the U.S. military is repatriating illegal immigrants at a pace that has never occurred before in American history. And those who are committing human trafficking and child trafficking are being prosecuted for felony offenses, and they’ll be doing hard time in jail. There’s never been a lockdown like what you have implemented through your orders and vision since you took the oath of office.”