President Donald Trump's promised border crackdown appears to have affected groups of migrants who are attempting to illegally enter the United States.
An internal customs and border patrol (CBP) memo obtained by Fox News shows that two immigrant groups have recently concluded their journey to the US and turned around to return to their home country.
On Wednesday, February 5th, Honduras officials were previously encountered a group of 23 immigrants heading to the United States. Individuals were welcomed from Honduras, Venezuela, Panama and El Salvador.
Honduras officials encountered immigrants heading to the United States on February 5, 2025. (CBP)
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According to the CBP memo, when interviewing migrants, officials learned they had entered Mexico through the border with Guatemala. However, they decided to look back after “learning and learning through US families, learning about the security of multi-institutional powers at the southwest border of social media.”
In its memo, the CBP also noted that migrants surrendered to Mexican authorities before being sent back to Guatemala, where they boarded a bus heading to Honduras.
The CBP detailed the February 3rd incident in another internal memo obtained by Fox News, in which Honduras authorities met a group of 26 immigrants. These immigrants also headed to the US, but when they learned about increased security they turned and chose to return to their country of origin instead.
Honduras officials encountered immigrants heading to the United States on February 5, 2025. (CBP)
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The immigrants of this group were apparently from Venezuela and Cuba. They were initially sent back to Honduras by Nicaraguan immigrant staff, but after discussion between the two countries they were allowed to cross to Nicaragua when they returned home.
President Donald Trump has vowed to focus much of his 2024 campaign on illegal immigration and take a completely different approach to former President Joe Biden. During his second term campaign, Trump often appeared with his family who lost a loved one to illegal immigration crime or fentanyl.
Following the November election, there were reports that illegal immigrants either left the US or that Trump chose to “self-report” before returning to DC due to fear of potential policies.
The first law President Trump signed in his second term was the Laken Riley Act, named after a nursing student killed by illegal immigrants while jogging on the University of Georgia campus. Jose Ibarra, who had previously been arrested but never restrained on ice, has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering 22-year-old Lake Rayleigh Riley.
President Trump has also taken a novel approach to detaining illegal immigrants. Under President Trump's order to “expand the expansion center of the Guantanamo Bay Navy's Navy's Immigration Operations Center to all capacity,” illegal immigrants will be housed as the last 15 remaining detainees in the infamous facility.
Authorities encountered US immigrants from Venezuela and Cuba on February 3, 2025. (CBP)
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Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noem, who participated in the immigration raid in New York City last month, confirmed that the second illegal immigrants had departed to Gitmo before his visit.
Noem previously said that only the “worst, worst, worst” of illegal immigrants would be sent to facilities in Cuba, and that up to 30,000 migrants could eventually live there.
