The Trump administration recently confirmed that approximately 25,000 illegal migrant children have been located so far, out of approximately 300,000 missing children.
Trump border czar Tom Homan last week told reporters that he was called back to service with three main goals: Securing the border, running President Donald Trump’s deportation effort, and finding the missing children who were brought into the United States illegally under the Biden administration.
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The Trump administration is working to safely return the unaccompanied illegal migrant children lost under the Biden administration to their home countries, The Daily Signal has learned.
Hundreds of thousands of minors arrived at the southern border without a parent or a legal guardian under the Biden administration. The Trump administration has located 13,000 of those children, and now, the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a subagency of the Department of Health and Human Services, is working to reunite those children with their families in their home countries and find the rest of the missing minors.
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Border czar Tom Homan said on Friday that border officials have rescued roughly 10,000 of the 300,000 unaccompanied migrant children that went missing under former President Joe Biden’s administration.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided a marijuana facility in Camarillo, California, where they encountered eight unaccompanied minors and two other juveniles, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney Scott confirmed on Thursday. Homan said on “Fox & Friends” that around 10,000 of these children have been recovered since President Donald Trump reentered office.
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Illegal border crossings reached an all-time low in June thanks to what border czar Tom Homan labeled Tuesday as the “Trump Effect.”
Only 6,070 encounters were recorded at the U.S.-Mexico border last month, according to Homan, who oversees the Trump administration’s border control and deportation efforts. Homan credited the drop in border encounters to the deterrent effect of the administration’s strict immigration enforcement policies and harsh consequences for illegal entry.
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Federal law enforcement officials arrested a Texas man after he allegedly threatened to harm deportation officers and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem herself.
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Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to clarify whether she is actually under investigation for potentially obstructing the Trump administration’s immigration agenda.
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The White House has touted January’s 36% decline in border apprehensions—the lowest number of illegal aliens apprehended along the border in almost five years—as the “Trump effect.”
That total includes 29,116 apprehended at the border outside of official ports of entry, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. That’s the lowest since May 2020. And that compares to 47,316 apprehensions outside of official ports in December.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is on pace to arrest roughly one million illegal aliens by the end of the Trump administration, a sizable figure but well below President Donald Trump’s target.
The revelation comes as Republicans in the House and Senate look to include border security and deportation provisions and funding in an upcoming spending package that could allow for a significant expansion of ICE arrests.
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On Thursday, the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago over its “sanctuary” laws defying federal immigration authorities.
As Just The News reports, the DOJ sued Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-Ill.) and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D-Ill.), among other Democratic officials in the state. The suit states that the “sanctuary” laws in Illinois, and particularly Chicago, are deliberately “designed to and in fact interfere with and discriminate against the Federal Government’s enforcement of federal immigration law in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.”
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House Republicans are officially launching an investigation into several major sanctuary cities that have policies in place restricting cooperation between local authorities and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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The Trump administration is removing hundreds of illegal migrants from the United States daily as it follows through on a campaign pledge to implement a hardline enforcement agenda.
A total of 538 illegal migrant criminals were arrested on Thursday and deportation flights via military aircraft are already underway, a Trump administration spokesperson stated Thursday. Among those arrested include a suspected terrorist, four members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua and several individuals convicted of sex crimes against children.
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The Trump administration incredibly expanded Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) ability to quickly deport illegal immigrants from the U.S. on Tuesday, removing yet another enforcement hurdle.
“Expedited removal” is a policy that allows federal immigration officials within 100 miles of an international land border to remove illegal migrants via a streamlined process that bypasses the backlogged immigration court system. Per a notice posted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ICE agents now have the ability to implement expedited removal anywhere in the country, removing illegal migrants’ ability to slow-walk their removal by contesting their deportation order in court.
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As President Donald Trump resumes office, illegal aliens in the sanctuary city of New York are already fleeing out of fear of the expected deportation operations that the 45th and 47th president has promised.
As the New York Post reports, several illegals admitted that their reason for fleeing was the expectation that the new president will follow through on his campaign pledge to carry out the largest mass deportation operation in American history. A 31-year-old Venezuelan illegal named Kervin Nava confessed that he is “making arrangements somewhere else,” while another illegal from Colombia, 29-year-old Kevin Llena, said that “the idea of raids at the hotel…worries me.”
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For those of us in the news business, 2024 provided a steady stream of stories to cover—and rarely a dull moment. From the Republican primaries early in the year to the assassination attempts and political conventions this summer, our Daily Signal team stayed busy through Election Day and in the days that followed.
During his first term as president, Donald Trump provided a plethora of political and policy news for us to report. We expect the same will be true in 2025. But before we turn the page on this year, our team reflected on the winners and losers—compiling the following list (listed alphabetically).
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President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar said that while the Biden administration’s latest deportation numbers appear high, they aren’t actually indicative of increased enforcement actions across the country.
More than 271,000 illegal migrants were deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in fiscal year 2024, marking the largest number of foreign nationals removed from the United States in a decade, according to a report released Thursday by the Biden administration. However, Tom Homan — a former acting director for the agency and the incoming border czar for the Trump administration — said these removals were largely a result of Border Patrol apprehensions and not indicative of immigration enforcement in the interior of the country.
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In the second and third quarters of fiscal 2024, U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents removed nearly 68,000 illegal border crossers, ICE says. ICE claims the number “reflects a 69% increase over removals during the third quarter in fiscal year 2023, and is more than 140% of ICE removals for all fiscal year 2023.”
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President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar is warning sanctuary cities of dire consequences if they refuse to turn over illegal immigrants, saying he’ll seek Justice Department authority to charge officials with obstruction and harboring if they don’t turn over illegal border crossers in their custody.
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President-elect Donald Trump’s nods for immigration and border-related posts appear to suggest he plans to keep the major-decision making on those issues within the White House rather than in offices of executive branch agencies filled with career government employees. Trump has vowed to pursue the mass deportation of illegal aliens from the country, beginning on his first day. He has cited President Dwight Eisenhower’s “Operation Wetback” as precedent for such an undertaking.
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by John Solomon Donald Trump sent an unmistakable message with his first few personnel choices for his second term, dispatching to the halls of power players like Elise Stefanik, Tom Homan, Lee Zeldin and Stephen Miller who take a no-nonsense approach to their jobs and will focus on everyday…
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President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Tom Homan, a major advocate of deporting illegal aliens, to be his “border czar” in his next administration.
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During President Joe Biden’s address to the American public Wednesday night, he said his administration secured the border.
Without discussing border policies in his 10-minute address, he touted his efforts in two sentences, saying, “We are also securing our border. Border crossings are lower today than when the previous administration left office.”
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