For four years, America’s southern border was a faucet with no handle — water pouring across the floor, soaking everything it touched, and the man in charge swearing up and down he couldn’t find the shutoff valve. Joe Biden told us his hands were tied. He said he was just following the law. He even had the audacity to blame the guy who’d left the border more secure than it had been in a generation.
Meanwhile, the water kept coming. By some estimates, upwards of fifteen million illegal immigrants crossed the southern border during Biden’s single term — official tallies put it north of ten million, and the real number almost certainly ran higher. Entire communities buckled under the weight. Emergency rooms, school districts, shelters, and city budgets strained to the breaking point while Washington shrugged. But hey, at least we were told the border was “secure,” right?
And through it all, the excuse never changed: nothing can be done. The border is too long. The problem is too complex. Congress won’t act. It was always someone else’s fault, some other branch’s failure, some inherited mess that conveniently predated his own presidency. You almost had to admire the commitment to the bit — four straight years of looking into cameras and telling communities watching fentanyl bury their children that this was simply the way things had to be.
Then Donald Trump walked back into the Oval Office and found the valve on the first day. Funny how that works.
The Department of Homeland Security announced this week that the United States has now recorded thirteen consecutive months of zero migrant releases at the southern border. Not a reduction. Not a slowdown. Zero. According to Customs and Border Protection, it is the lowest figure in more than three decades.
From The Post Millennial:
Thirteen straight months of ZERO releases at the border. Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, we are delivering the most secure border in American history. The days of catch and release are over. We are enforcing the nation’s laws and quickly sending illegal aliens back to their home countries, ensuring the safety and sovereignty of our nation.
That was DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and the numbers behind his words are enough to make your head spin. Border Patrol recorded just 9,998 apprehensions along the southwest border in May — a 94 percent decrease from the Biden-era monthly average. The daily average dropped to 323. For the whole of fiscal year 2026, total apprehensions are running 26 percent below the monthly average stretching all the way back to 1992.
And the results go well beyond crossings. Nearly 800 pounds of fentanyl were seized at the border in May alone, up 72 percent from April. Marijuana seizures are up 61 percent over Biden-era figures. Overall drug interdiction is running 56 percent higher year over year. CBP also intercepted two million counterfeit goods worth over $400 million and blocked 247 shipments tied to forced labor. In other words, the border isn’t just closed — it’s actually working.
I don’t know how else to put this: a sitting president told the American people for four straight years that the border could not be secured, and his successor secured it in his first month and hasn’t let up since. Thirteen months of zero. Where’s the apology? Where’s the accountability from every official who swore on a stack of talking points that this was impossible?
I think about the parents in small border towns who lost kids to fentanyl while politicians debated whether there was even a problem. The families told to just live with it. They deserved better than excuses. They deserved a president willing to do the job.
The faucet is off. The floor is drying. And now every last one of us can see the difference between a man who made excuses and a man who made it stop.
Sources: The Post Millennial, NEPYORK
