The Trump administration’s border czar Tom Homan announced on X Tuesday evening that not a single person detained at the border in June was released into the country.
Last month’s border numbers are in, and they are a massive win for President Donald Trump and the rule of law.
That goes alongside a dramatic decline in total border encounters since Trump took office.
“Total Border Patrol encounters for the entire month of June 2025 was 6,070,” Homan wrote. “That is less than a single day under Biden. As a matter of fact, the total number of encounters is less than half of a single day under Biden on many days.”
According to CBS News, June’s numbers represent the lowest monthly apprehensions at the border ever recorded by Customs and Border Protection. The previous record was set just a few months ago, in March, when there were only 7,200 border apprehensions.
It’s hard to overstate what an astounding turnaround there has been at the border under Trump compared to President Joe Biden. Fox New correspondent Bill Melugin compared the June numbers of the last four years.
The border crisis began the day Biden took office and was extinguished as soon as Trump returned. The stark numbers only highlight the effect of executive will in dealing with this issue.
Whatever “root causes” were creating the explosion of illegal immigrants to come to America, the previous administration clearly did nothing to stop them. They opened the door and let in as many illegal aliens as fast as they could while only pretending to prioritize border security when the situation got out of hand and became a political problem.
It’s remarkable looking back at the bogus immigration bill promoted by the Biden administration in February 2024 as a reasonable compromise.
A section of the bill ordered that the border be shut down after 5,000 border crossings in seven consecutive days or 8,500 in one day. It was set to be in place for three years. Think about that. Serious border security would only flip on if roughly the same number of people came in per day for an entire week as came in during an entire month in June.
The answer to this problem wasn’t additional legislation—that seemed more like an excuse to shovel more money at Ukraine and make the Biden policies official rather than fix the border. The answer was a change in who was running the executive branch from an administration that recklessly allowed illegal aliens to flood the country to one that’s been dedicated to enforcing the laws on the books.
At the border, the dramatic shift in rhetoric and policy coming out of the White House created a massive turnaround. The bigger headache for the administration is undoing the damage already done by Biden and company.
Trump has committed to mass deportations, a massive challenge given that the Biden administration allowed millions of asylum seekers into the country and Democrat-controlled sanctuary cities and states are doing their best to impede Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Assaults on ICE agents have risen by 700% according to the Department of Homeland Security.
So, the deeper problem is far from being solved. And the Left continues to do everything it can to stop the enforcement of immigration laws. But it’s hard to deny that the Trump administration has at least delivered on the promise to seal the border and regain control of America’s national sovereignty.
