In May 2024, the Biden administration released more than 62,000 illegal aliens into the United States. In May 2025, that number dropped to zero.
That was the headline from the latest round of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data released on Tuesday, which showed yet another month of historic lows in illegal border crossings.
Total border encounters in May declined 88 percent from a year ago, continuing the trend seen in February, March, and April. In the four full months Trump has been in office, illegal border crossings have declined by an identical 88 percent from 2024.
Trump’s success on the border represents perhaps one of the greatest achievements of any administration in history in its first four months in office. While the Biden-Harris administration insisted that “root causes” and “external factors” were responsible for the unprecedented flood of illegal aliens into the United States beginning in January 2021, Trump is now completely vindicated in his assertion that a change in leadership was all that was necessary to solve the crisis.
White House border czar Tom Homan announced the news in a post on X detailing CBP’s success. According to Homan, in the 24 hours prior to his post, CBP “encountered a total of 95 illegal aliens across the entire southern border,” which is the lowest number on record. This is in stark contrast to the Biden administration, where daily border crossings often exceeded 10,000.
Homan further pushed for Congress to pass the “Big Beautiful Bill” to ensure the border is better secured in the future.
“To continue this great work and make it more permanent, we need the Big Beautiful Bill passed so we can finish the job, to include the biggest deportation operation the American people voted for,” Homan said. “God bless the men and women of CBP and ICE. President Trump is the Game Changer!”
The Big Beautiful Bill specifically includes funding to build over 2,300 miles of border wall and barriers that Trump promised in his first administration.
The bill also includes additional funding to hire 10,000 more ICE officers, 5,000 new custom officers, and 3,000 new Border Patrol agents. Border Patrol and ICE agents on the frontlines will receive $10,000 bonuses annually over the next four years if the bill passes.
CPB released a statement Tuesday detailing more accomplishments in May. Throughout the month, Border Patrol agents only encountered 8,725 illegal aliens attempting to cross the southern border. The agency explained that “this was a 93 percent decrease from May 2024 when USBP encountered 117,905 aliens.”
In total, CPB had an average of 952 encounters with illegal aliens each day in May. The agency said this was the “second lowest average daily number of CBP encounters in history.” CPB Acting Commissioner Pete Flores praised the Trump administration’s handling of the border.
“Under the leadership of this administration, CBP has received historic support resulting in another 93 percent decrease in illegal crossings along the southwest border this month when compared with last year,” Flores said. “Border numbers continue to trend at historic lows, reinforcing the sustained success of our enforcement efforts in securing the homeland and protecting American communities.”
CPB announced that the agency also seized 718 pounds of fentanyl in May. From April to May, cocaine seizures increased by 19 percent while heroin seizures increased by 191 percent.
Alan Jamison is the pen name of a political writer with extensive experience writing for several notable politicians and news outlets.
Sure, congress could have revised/improved/created new immigration laws at any time, but they didn’t, so the president took charge. It’s nice to have someone in charge who’s competent.
Promises made, promises kept!!! GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP!!! Now if only we could get rid of the Soros-paid leftist, America-last judges who keep blocking deportations, DJT could clean this country up!!!
Another set of lies by the former border czar and her boss Joe Biden about the borders are secure, exposed. How many things president Trump hasn’t had to fix in his first 100 days in office and continues every day since. Since Biden wasn’t mentally capable of running the country the deep state had a free hand and ruined this country. They all lied when they said they couldn’t close the borders. Of course they could, they just didn’t want to. After all they had orders from China not to close the borders. It was payback time for Biden for the 30 million Hunter secured from the Chinese for the Biden family.
When the number heading south hits 20 million, victory will be achieved.
Joe Biden, aka Drug Trafficker in Chief, aka Human Trafficker in Chief should be tried for treason for what he did to this county. I don’t care if he’s 90 something. There needs to be consequences.
Deporting Demarat FANTASTIC.
Trump should be added to Mt. Rushmore for:
1. RUINING Left-wing progressive socialist Commie”s lives.
2. Making millions of Left-wing progressive socialist Commie heads expolde.
3. For causing millions of Left-wing progressive socialist Commies to have complete and total TDS MELTDOWNS.
4. Causing millions of Left-wing progressive socialist Commies to scream at the top of their lungs “NOOOOOOO, NOOOOOO, NOOOOOO” and CRY crocodile tears, sob, weep, and gnashing of teeth in the streets across America when DJT WON election TWICE.
LOVE IT. LOVE IT. LOVE IT.
More to follow!
I wish Biden could be prosecuted for allowing the 14M illegal alien invasion into our country. Despicable.
The big slug called Congress refuses to do the job it was entrusted with, lawmakers break the law, then when someone takes charge of the chaos deliberately created he is called a dictator. We are dealing with children who need to be severely disciplined and punished and never allowed to hold the public office , of which they are not capable, again.
Such a victory for the good of this country!! Thank you President Trump! It is amazing what one competent patriot can do in such a short time! He puts most other presidents to shame!! We do not need immigration reform, we simply need to enforce the laws we already have. What a concept! I do hope President Trump can stop the babies born to illegal immigrants from becoming citizens just because they are born here. How can an illegal alien’s off-spring be a legal citizen??? Two wrongs do not make a right.
How could this be? We were told [by experts?] that the problem could only be solved by the “bipartisan” immigration bill! Yet, it seems the crisis of incoming ILLEGALS is over. HMM? What’s the answer? A president with years of experience in SOLVING problems rather than ignoring them!!
We have a President that is here for the people of this country. What is great he has the border shut down finally and hopefully he can keep on deporting the people that should not be here.
Last week, one border guard said they had 72 Gotaways per day where Biden had thousands. What is a gotaway & does ICE know where they went and who they are? Are these terrorist groups or who are they as it does not sound like a mother with two little kids.
Yea!
Now just waiting for deportation of illegal entrants numbers to equal or exceed O’Bama’s.
Victory
I believe in strong border control, but I do have a few questions. If we’ve solved the crisis, why do we need 10,000 more ICE officers, 5,000 new custom officers, and 3,000 new Border Patrol agents? Are the military troops going away? Are the new hires going to the Canadian border? And why hasn’t congress changed our asylum laws? Do we still allow people to seek asylum in the U.S. or not?