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(NewsNation) — Texas Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland told NewsNation that apprehensions astatine the U.S.-Mexico border are among the lowest helium has seen during his vocation successful instrumentality enforcement. Cleveland credits President Donald Trump’s borderline actions arsenic the crushed for the decline.
Arrests for amerciable crossings person fallen dramatically from an all-time monthly precocious of 250,000 successful December 2023, possibly astir strikingly successful the Rio Grande Valley, the epicenter for migrant arrivals from 2013 to 2022.
“We haven't seen apprehensions this low,” Cleveland said. “There's been a fewer days beneath 200 now. There's adjacent been a time I was told that bluish borderline apprehensions were higher than confederate borderline apprehensions.”
Cleveland applauded Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for the driblet successful apprehensions.
“What we've seen Secretary Noem bash — she's warring for the troops connected the ground, whether it's (local instrumentality enforcement), Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection officers arsenic good arsenic ICE agents.”
In February, Homeland Security launched a multimillion-dollar video advertisement run successful the U.S. and internationally that features Noem informing radical to permission oregon not to come.
“If you are present illegally, we volition find you and deport you. You volition ne'er return,” she said successful the video.
