Trump claims just '3' people crossed the border illegally in the last month

Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald on Apr 28, 2025

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Illegal U.S. border crossings have fallen to their lowest level ever recorded, according to U.S. President Donald Trump, and just three people were able to evade immigration or customs agents at the border and enter the U.S. without authorization last month.

Trump, who made securing the border and cracking down on illegal immigration a signature campaign promise as he pursued a second term, proclaimed via his personal social media platform that just released figures show illegal border crossings have fallen to a fraction of the instances seen previously.

“99.9% at the Border. Best number ever recorded. 3 people got in, versus hundreds of thousands in last Administration. There has NEVER been such a difference before,” Trump wrote Sunday, emphasis his.

“Congratulations America!” he added.

Trump’s declaration was not accompanied by any figures to support his claim, but it was echoed by the White House.

“Under President Donald J. Trump, illegal border crossings are stopped with a 99.9% success rate — only 0.1% of attempts, just 3 illegal aliens, made it through,” the official White House social media accounts declared.

That figure, if it holds true, would represent a sharp and sudden decline in the number of “got aways” found to have crossed the border without encountering U.S. law enforcement officials.

The most recently published government figures, provided this past January in the Department of Homeland Security Border Security Metrics Report for 2023, found an average of 1,661 “got aways” entered the U.S. between ports of entry daily in fiscal 2022, most of them through the southern border.

In declaring his near perfect April border results, the current president did not say how many people were apprehended by CBP and quickly expelled or how many were turned away at the border. Figures released by DHS for March showed that U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehended 7,181 people near the border. That figure is itself down from the more than 137,000 arrests made by CBP in March of 2024, under former President Biden.

According to Trump Administration “border czar” Tom Homan, as it stands today the U.S. has the “most secure border in the history of this nation.”

“President Trump was able to accomplish that in seven weeks, something that Joe Biden didn’t and wouldn’t do in four years,” Homan told CBS News on Sunday, before calling for more funding to tackle interior enforcement of U.S. immigration laws.

Just before proclaiming his apparent success at the border, Trump, on Saturday, suggested that the U.S. court system has been standing in the way of his plans for immigration reform and mass deportations, proclaiming that “we need Courageous JUSTICE in our Country.” His assertion comes after the Friday arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, who is accused of helping an immigrant man sought by ICE evade capture.

“If the Courts don’t allow what we have been allowed to do for 250 years, America can no longer be the same. Crooked Joe Biden will have destroyed our Country with his Open Border MADNESS, and allowing criminals of every type to enter with no Retribution. Murderers, Drug Dealers, Gang Members, and even the Mentally Insane will make their home in our Country, wreaking havoc like we have never seen before,” the commander-in-chief wrote.

Trump went on to suggest that those immigrants apprehended by his administration or at risk of apprehension in the future cannot feasibly be provided due legal process, and that their guilt under the law has already been determined.

“It is not possible to have trials for millions and millions of people. We know who the Criminals are, and we must get them out of the U.S.A. — and FAST,” he wrote, capitalization his.

A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll of 2,464 U.S. adults released on Sunday found a majority of Americans, or 53%, now disapprove of the President’s take on immigration, while 46% approve of the work he’s doing.

Vanessa Cárdenas, executive director national immigrant rights group America’s Voice, said in a statement that the polling shows Americans are alarmed by the “scope of mass deportations and how the administration’s attacks on immigrants also aim at core pillars of our democracy – such as due process and the separation of powers.”

“It’s little wonder that Trump’s approval ratings on immigration are declining and he has ceded his previous advantages on the issue,” Cárdenas said.

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