This year, the southern border is looking to be the quietest it’s been since at least the early 1970s. And it’s all thanks to President Donald Trump’s tough talk on illegal immigration, said the Border Patrol union leader.
“What President Trump has done in such a short time as it pertains to border security is nothing less than miraculous,” Brandon Judd, President National Border Patrol Council, told CNSNews.
“No other president has been able to cut the number of illegal border crossings as President Trump has, and it’s been strictly due to his rhetoric.”
The number of apprehensions fell precipitously at the beginning of this year, after President Donald Trump took office with a promise of boosting immigration law enforcement and border protection.
During March, April, and May—usually the most active months for border crossers—agents apprehended 37,858 people, compared with 111,742 during the same period last year.
