7,300.
That is the number of violent illegal aliens, which include rapists, robbers, and kidnappers, President Donald Trump’s administration deported in one week, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
In the first week of the Trump Administration, we have fulfilled President Trump’s promise to the American people to arrest and deport violent criminals illegally in the country. In one week, law enforcement officials have removed and returned 7,300 illegal aliens. pic.twitter.com/JKZYMD0f00
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 28, 2025
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that on Monday alone, authorities arrested 1,179 illegal aliens.
— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) January 28, 2025
In an arrest that went viral last week, a Boston ICE team apprehended a Haitian national who screamed “Fuck Trump, Biden forever” as he was forced into a government vehicle. Other targets from the raids included MS-13 gang members, another Haitian man who flew into the United States thanks to former President Joe Biden’s migrant flight program and is now charged with sexual assault, and a Honduran who allegedly raped a woman while holding a gun in her mouth, Fox’s Bill Melugin reported. (Subscribe to MR. RIGHT, a weekly newsletter about modern masculinity)
EXCLUSIVE: We were given exclusive access to ICE’s elite Boston team as they went into sanctuary jurisdictions and targeted the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens, including a combative Haitian man who said he won’t go back & screamed “F**k Trump, Biden forever!”. Other… pic.twitter.com/wQ43sv5MBf
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 23, 2025
NEW: After our embed w/ ICE Boston was over, they tell us they arrested two more targets, including a Haitian man who flew into the US in 2023 as part of Biden’s migrant flights program & is now charged w/ sexual assault, & a previously deported Honduran illegal alien charged… pic.twitter.com/kZmMSiHcuj
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 23, 2025
Down at the border, Border Patrol encounters with illegal aliens have dropped 35% in the first days of Trump’s administration compared to the final days of Biden’s, according to Fox News.
Trump has also sent down 1,500 active duty troops and military aircraft to the southern border to assist with security and deportation flights, with Acting Defense Secretary Robert Salesses saying, “This is just the beginning.” Locked and loaded Marines are among the troops now stationed across the border, and one official told Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin that if the Mexican cartels shoot at them, they “will not stand by.”
100 US troops are already en route to the border. A senior Marine official I spoke to said:
The 500 Marines being sent from being on stand by to help with the California fires will be armed and have magazines in their weapons, unlike during past border missions. The Marines are…— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) January 22, 2025
“Our response will be immediate. We are going in ready to respond. If the cartels shoot at us we will not stand by,” the Marine official told Griffin. “We will be taking whatever equipment we would send if a Marine Expeditionary Unit or MEU were deploying overseas.”
In addition to sending military personnel south, Trump mandated a new rule that bars illegal aliens from entering the country and requesting legal protection. Border Patrol agents have now been instructed to immediately deport them. The Trump administration also canceled all flights for refugees scheduled to enter the United States at the beginning of the president’s term. (Subscribe to MR. RIGHT, a weekly newsletter about modern masculinity)
“In accordance with the Executive Order, ‘Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program,’ the Department of State is coordinating with implementing partners to suspend refugee arrivals to the United States and cease processing activities,” a State Department spokesperson said.
The actions taken to shore up border security are all impressive. So, too, the numbers. But the optics of Trump’s border blitz are just as important, if not more.
Under President Joe Biden’s administration, Americans were increasingly alarmed over the prospect of increased crime rates, drugs, potential terrorism, and a heavier taxpayer burden stemming from illegal immigration.
According to a poll released in April 2024, over half of Americans — 42% of Democrats, 68% of Republicans, and 46% of independents — said they would support a mass deportation of illegal aliens. Nearly two-thirds of the respondents said they believed that illegal immigration was a full-blown, legitimate crisis, despite assurances otherwise from the Biden administration. In a separate poll from September 2024, 54% of voters, including 86% of Republicans, 58% of independents, and 25% of Democrats, said they support a mass deportation policy. More recently, a New York Times poll released in January found that 83% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning Americans believe illegal immigrants with criminal records should be deported, while 64% of independents agreed.
Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative, Americans want to feel safe in their own country, their own city, and their own neighborhood. They want to trust that their neighbors and their local law enforcement will do their part to maintain safety and order. If they live in a small town, they don’t want to panic every time they run errands and forget to close the garage door. If they live in a large city, they don’t want to go to sleep knowing in the morning their car windows will be smashed in, or that they will have to step over a strung-out homeless man sleeping on their apartment stoop as they leave for work. They want a high-trust society.
Unfortunately, though, Americans have grown accustomed to fear and paranoia in 2025. Why? Because illegal immigration and lawlessness have eroded trust. The sketchy man stalking down the sidewalk is not the harmless local bum who had too much hooch at the watering hole — he might be a foreign national wanted for rape in his home country.
Trump’s optics on the immigration crisis are a small but crucial step toward restoring trust throughout America and trust in government, which has cratered in recent decades. Taxpayers will see the publicized ICE raid in Boston and actually think their dollars are going toward a necessary project in their own country, not some school in Pakistan teaching kids about transgender rights.
They will also act as a deterrent. Border encounters are already dropping just weeks into the Trump administration, and illegal aliens currently residing in the United States are reportedly hiding in fear of the next ICE raid. If the raids are to continue long into 2025, those numbers will only further decrease.
The perception of law and order is back in America, and that is something to celebrate.
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