House Democrats to head to U.S.-Mexico border in California to scrutinize Trump security policies

Tom Emmerhouse Majority Whip

Under Border Czar Kamala Harris, illegal aliens were able to stroll through the southern border and were welcomed with buses. Under President @realdonaldtrump, the border is CLOSED, with border crossings down 94% from last March,

said Emmer

The southern border is getting back under control. March hit a record low for illegal crossings — just 7,181. That’s a 95% drop from last year,

Cassidy said

Marlin Stutzmanamerican politician

1 year ago, a border with American operational control seemed nearly impossible with the way cartels were utilizing Biden’s open door policies to their advantage,

Stutzman said in a statement to the Washington Examiner

Mark Green (Tennessee politician)house Homeland Security Chairman

I’m ecstatic. We finally secured our southern border,

Green told Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday

7,180 Border Patrol apprehensions in March is very few. The fewest since 2000, when USBP started reporting monthly data,

Isacson wrote in a post to X Wednesday

March recorded the lowest southwest border crossings in history – averaging just 230 per day, ... This is the result of President Trump enforcing immigration law, repealing Biden's disastrous open border policies, and allowing Border Patrol Agents to do their job. In less than three months of this Administration, our border is secure, and our nation is protected."

De La Cruz wrote in a post to X

He’s doing what he was voted in to do. Point blank

an ICE source told the outlet

Under the leadership of President [Donald] Trump and [DHS] Secretary [Kristi] Noem, the administration has taken bold, decisive action to restore control at the border. Border Patrol agents are empowered like never before to shut down unlawful entry and protect American lives,

Pete Flores, acting CBP commissioner, said

California, Mexico border, once overwhelmed, is now nearly empty with so few migrants coming into the U.S.’ ... shelters that once served migrants have completely closed.

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Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, border patrol agents are now back to doing the jobs they signed up for: securing the border, rather than serving as travel agents for illegal aliens,

she said

That's getting closer to Obama-era numbers, so I wouldn't say it's on its face impossible. I have a hard time seeing 70,000 people deported in two weeks. Putting those two claims together makes me very skeptical,

Kocher said

The Biden administration deported 271,000 people during the final year and that was the highest in about a decade. I suppose if the administration is claiming that they have done more than a third of that already in two months, I'm skeptical of the 100,000 number, but not impossible,

Austin Kocher, immigration research professor at Syracuse University, told Newsweek Tuesday

At this point, this early point, I'm skeptical about any number that the administration provides that fits neatly within its own political, rhetorical strategy. If it is too neat and it lacks context and evidence, I am skeptical."

Syracuse University professor Austin Kocher told Newsweek

This did not happen. DHS reported 32,000 post-Jan. 20th arrests as of March 13. They did not arrest twice that number in two weeks. Why are they throwing out this crazy stuff? There has not been 100,000 removals either."

David Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, on X, formerly Twitter