Illegal immigration at the U.S. southern border has been dropping since March 2024, and decreased sharply after President Donald Trump entered the White House Jan. 20. But, his administration inflated the decrease. It compared a week’s worth of encounters under Biden with the daily average during Trump’s first week.
The Trump administration is ramping up plans to detain undocumented immigrants at military sites across the United States, a significant expansion of efforts by the White House to use wartime resources to make good on the president’s promised mass deportations.