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Unidentified Speaker credits presidential change for sharp drop in illegal border crossings
Summary
An Unidentified Speaker told a recorded session that illegal border crossings have dropped to a "trickle," attributing the decline to the election of former President Trump and saying most crossers are returned; the transcript contains no independent data to verify those claims.
An Unidentified Speaker said the level of illegal border crossings has fallen dramatically and attributed that change to a shift in the presidency.
The speaker opened by saying, "I've never seen such a massive drop in illegal immigration," and quoted former President Trump as saying that to secure the border "we didn't need new laws. We just needed a new president." The speaker added, "once he got elected president, it led to a sudden halt and people crossing the border illegally."
The speaker described the current flow as "just a trickle of people a day" and said "of the people who do make it across, most of them are actually returned," adding that "there's only been a few dozen or so that are even allowed to stay in The United States." The transcript does not provide supporting data, source documents, or citations to verify the numbers or their time frame; the number quoted by the speaker was given as "a few dozen or so" and was not independently confirmed in the record.
The speaker also referred to "those films" and said "Those films are under the Biden administration," linking the visual material shown during the remarks to the current administration. The speaker further said the pattern "leads to exactly what Secretary Noem was talking about," connecting the return-and-deterrence claim to remarks made by Secretary Noem as referenced in the transcript.
No formal motion, vote, or evidentiary presentation accompanied these statements in the transcript. The remarks recorded in SEG 001–SEG 022 consist of assertions and quoted lines; the transcript does not include supporting data, named witnesses providing counts, or a documented source for the claim that "most" crossers are returned or that "a few dozen" were allowed to stay.
