The employees of the Department of Homeland Security and officers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement are making America great again. They never receive the necessary or appropriate recognition for making communities safer and protecting the country’s citizens.
First, they had risked their lives by being in harm’s way when apprehending violent criminals. Now, they risk their lives because Democrats essentially painted a metaphorical bullseye on their backs and made them the target of every unhinged, violent acolyte of radical left-wing political ideology, with numerous incidents of attempted assassinations and physical harm. Yet, after months of being vilified by millions of Americans at the behest of Democrats and others on the Left, they’ve persisted.
DHS announced on Monday that it had removed over 527,000 illegal immigrants from the United States. Another 1.6 million have voluntarily deported themselves, the federal agency reported. All of this has happened in a little over nine months. It’s indicative of what happens when there is real presidential leadership about removing illegal immigrants, instead of repeated but noncommittal quotes about doing so. Where other presidents, congressional leaders, and other elected officials said they were going to do things to curb illegal immigration, DHS and ICE, at the behest of President Donald Trump, have actually done so.
DHS has delivered a much-needed illegal immigration reckoning in the U.S. The federal agency touted its accomplishments in a released statement.
“The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced record-breaking statistics with more than 527,000 illegal aliens removed under the leadership of President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem,” noted the release.
In addition to actually delivering on a plan to remedy illegal immigration, DHS and ICE have done so as Democrats have ushered in an era of betrayal, making great efforts to target these law enforcement officials while constantly protecting people who are breaking the law, many of whom are violent offenders.
Numerous murderers, rapists, drug traffickers, and other violent offenders, the kind of criminals Democrats have regularly assured are not part of the illegal immigrant population, have been apprehended by ICE officers in 2025. DHS noted that “70% of ICE arrests are of criminal illegal aliens charged with or convicted of a crime in the U.S.”
“The Trump Administration is on pace to shatter historic records and deport nearly 600,000 illegal aliens by the end of President Donald Trump’s first year since returning to office,” said Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs for the DHS. “More than 2 million illegal aliens have left the U.S., including 1.6 million who have voluntarily self-deported and over 527,000 deportations.”
The country is much safer without such criminals, and they are no longer here because of the Trump administration’s directives to DHS.
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“This is just the beginning,” McLaughlin added. “President Trump and Secretary Noem have jump-started an agency that was hamstrung and barred from doing its job for the last four years. In the face of a historic number of injunctions from activist judges and threats to law enforcement, DHS, ICE, and CBP have not just closed the border, but made historic strides to carry out President Trump’s promise of arresting and deporting illegal aliens who have invaded our country.”
“Illegal aliens are hearing our message to leave now or face the consequence: Migrants are now turning back before they even reach our borders,” she said.
