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White House Announces Massive Deportation News To Celebrate 100 Days
The White House just announced a significant deportation milestone to highlight the success of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days.
A punishing 8:30 a.m. press conference woke up a hungover press corps still nursing their heads after spending all weekend patting themselves on the back at the annual Correspondents Dinner, an affair sans the celebrities and excess of prior years. Instead, they were treated to a spiel by border czar Tom Homan as he listed a litany of ways illegal immigration has been curbed during Trump’s time in office.
One of the greatest turnaround efforts was the inconspicuous transition to placing detained illegal immigrations in ICE centers rather than pricey hotel rooms, a previous policy that Homan said was deliberately set by the Biden-Harris administration.
“Why not put them in an empty ICE bed at one-hundred twenty-seven dollars a night rather than a hotel room at five hundred bucks a night?” Homan asked. “They did it on purpose, because when you put them in an ICE detention bed they get a hearing in 35 days.”
Under the prior administration, millions of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers were given court hearings, sometimes nearly 10 years from their date of entry.
“Their hearings could be five, seven, nine years [away], and then appeals,” he added.
Instead, the Trump administration’s new expedited removal policies have resulted in close to 200,000 unlawful aliens being deported from the U.S., according to the White House. Illegal crossings were down 94% in February and again in March compared to one year earlier, the Gateway Pundit reports.
An illustration of the White House’s talking points was visible on the front lawn, where yard signs touted the faces and names of violent illegal immigrants deported within the first 100 days.
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Perhaps the most stellar news was broken by the president directly, who on Truth Social claimed that illegal crossings have fallen to their lowest level ever recorded, and that just three individuals successfully crossed into the U.S. illegally last month.
“99.9% at the Border. Best number ever recorded. 3 people got in, versus hundreds of thousands in last Administration. There has NEVER been such a difference before,” Trump wrote Sunday.
“Congratulations America!” he added.
The Boston Herald shared recently published government figures, provided this past January in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Border Security Metrics Report for 2023, finding an average of 1,661 “got aways” entered the U.S. between ports of entry daily in fiscal 2022, most of them through the southern border.
Monday’s victory lap was a carryover from interviews given by Trump, Homan, and other administration officials over the weekend. On CBS News, Homan declared the U.S. now has the “most secure border in the history of this nation.”
“President Trump was able to accomplish that in seven weeks, something that Joe Biden didn’t and wouldn’t do in four years,” he said Sunday before calling for more funding to increase the number of deportations in the interior.
Even when pressed on uncomfortable aspects of their policies, Homan went on the attack, a sign that the administration feels extremely comfortable keeping the national press focused on immigration. He vigorously defended the decision to place several children with U.S. citizenship with their mother, an illegal immigrant who was recently apprehended and deported back to her home country.
“If we didn’t do it, the story today would be ‘Trump administration is separating families again,'” he said.
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