If you are looking for hopeful signs in the battle against illegal immigration, they can be found. Crossings at the southern border, of course, have dropped off to near zero.
USA Today reports,
U.S. Border Patrol reported about 8,400 migrant encounters at the southern border in April, down from nearly 129,000 encounters during the same month a year ago.
That works out to only 280 per day, down more than 4,000 encounters, per day. You will recall that last year’s “bipartisan” border security bill would have allowed for 5,000 to cross per day, before any enforcement actions would have taken place.
But what to do about the tens of millions illegal immigrants already here? We need every tool in the toolbox. We hear about CBP, ICE, FBI and a host of other federal agencies.
The U.S. Attorneys are starting to do their part. The people at TRAC have assembled this graph of immigration prosecutions, filed by month,
That spike on the far right represents the 4,550 cases filed by U.S. Attorneys across America in March, which appear to be the most ever in a month. And they are not just filing cases, they are getting convictions, too,
U.S. Attorneys recorded 6,306 convictions for immigration offenses, compared with a total of 10,965 federal convictions for all types of offenses in U.S. courts in March 2025.
Earlier this week, I confirmed with my local (Minnesota) U.S. Attorney’s Office that they, too, were filing criminal immigration cases at a record pace.
It’s not tens of millions, but these tend to be the worst cases, an appropriate use of a scarce resource.
I am confident you see in the media reports of every single court setback suffered by the Trump Administration regarding immigration enforcement efforts. What you see much less of are the thousands of successes that are recorded each day.
