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New York Post
3 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Total border encounters last month were less than ‘a single day under Biden,' Tom Homan says
Federal authorities encountered fewer migrants attempting to illegally enter the US last month than what officials faced daily during the Biden administration, border czar Tom Homan revealed Tuesday. 'Total Border Patrol encounters for the entire month of June 2025 was 6,070,' according to Homan, who noted in an X post that the figure is 'less than a single day under Biden.' 'As a matter of fact, the total number of encounters is less than half of a single day under Biden on many days,' the Trump administration official said, adding that 'none of the 6,070 were released into the US. ZERO.' Advertisement 3 Homan attributed the sharp decline in illegal border-crossings to 'The Trump Effect.' Getty Images The total released by Homan marks a 93.1% drop in nationwide Border Patrol encounters from June 2024, when 87,606 migrants were nabbed trying to enter the country illegally. It's also a 94% and 97% decline from June 2023 and June 2022, when, respectively, 100,606 and 193,027 migrants were encountered by Border Patrol. Advertisement In June 2022, the average daily total of migrant encounters was about 6,434 per day. Last month, Border Patrol reported encountering just over 10,000 migrants nationwide. Homan attributed the massive reduction in border-crossings to President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration, calling it, 'The Trump Effect.' 3 Trump has deployed thousands of US troops to the southern border in an effort to combat illegal immigration. AP Advertisement 3 Monthly migrant encounters are massivly lower than they were under former President Joe Biden. Anadolu via Getty Images 'President Trump has created the most secure border in the history of the nation and the data proves it,' the border czar asserted. 'We have never seen numbers this low. Never.' 'God bless the men and women of the US Border Patrol and God bless the men and women of ICE,' Homan continued. 'The interior arrests and consequences help to drive down illegal immigration.' 'The TRUMP EFFECT keeps America winning.'
Los Angeles Times
08-05-2025
- Business
- Los Angeles Times
It's all Trump's economy now
OK, I got something wrong about President Trump. On the eve of his inauguration, I wrote a column establishing, with data, how fine an economy he was inheriting; one big financial firm declared it the 'Roaring '20s.' My point was less to counter Trump's claims that President Biden had destroyed the economy, and more to offer a pre-buttal to what I expected would be Trump's efforts to steal credit for fixing what wasn't broken. Little did I (or just about anyone else) anticipate how quickly Trump would break that inheritance rather than let the good times roll. Certainly his billionaire backers banked that he wouldn't ignite a global trade war — they were just counting on him to cut their taxes and regulations. Yet even those of us who took candidate Trump at his word about 'beautiful' tariffs were stunned when he imposed self-punishing levies on just about every nation in the world and an Antarctic island of penguins. So now, instead of taking credit for a good economy Biden handed off, Trump is blaming him for the damage from Trump's own actions. Stock market slides, diminished 401(k)s, higher prices, negative first-quarter growth, recession warnings — all Biden's fault, says Trump. 'I think the good parts are the Trump economy and the bad parts are the Biden economy,' he said on NBC's 'Meet the Press' on Sunday. As for the purported 'good parts,' a new page on the White House website titled 'The Trump Effect' boasts that his policies 'have sparked trillions of dollars in new investment in U.S. manufacturing, technology, and infrastructure.' The Washington Post reviewed the promised investments listed on the page and found that they mostly reflected companies' regular business costs or dated to those bad ol' Biden days. In any case, it's pretty rich to have the president boasting about getting companies to invest more in the United States when his own family's businesses are on a tear investing in the Middle East and Asia. (Except for Donald Trump Jr.'s interest in a new, invitation-only Washington club; nothing says 'populist' like a half-million-dollar-plus private club fee.) On April 30, just after the government report on the economy's slowdown, Trump posted, 'Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden 'Overhang.' …BE PATIENT!!!' He won't say how long Americans must wait, but at least past Christmas apparently. The president who's never wanted for a thing is telling America's girls to be satisfied with two dolls instead of 30. (His clueless Cabinet members chuckled at that during their recent meeting.) So, Barbie will be a casualty of Trump's trade war. Toy Assn. CEO Greg Ahearn told the New York Times that the virtual stoppage of trade with China, which makes most toys (including Barbies), is 'putting Christmas at risk.' (Now that's a war on Christmas.) Trump's dismissive quip that the dolls that are available might cost 'a couple of bucks more' is proof he knows he's lying when he says Americans don't pay for tariffs. His politically tone-deaf take on dolls should stick, right through the 2026 midterm elections in Democrats' campaign ads. It underscores why he won't get away with the Biden-blaming: The economic chaos and uncertainty that companies and consumers are enduring are too well identified with Trump and tariffs. His job-approval slump in recent polls attests to that. Even if Trump retreats on tariffs, as he has selectively and mostly temporarily, or comes to trade deals with various countries, he is unlikely to abandon the levies altogether. This week's out-of-the-blue bombshell for new tariffs on films made outside the United States — 'a national security threat,' he insisted — is evidence of that. What's more, if Trump were to forsake tariffs, with them would go his entire economic rationale — contradictory and implausible as it is — for the 'golden age' they are supposed to usher in: with new investments, trade surpluses and revenues so great that the income tax could be repealed. No matter how often he bashes Biden, Trump will own the economic travails that are likely ahead. Parallel to the tariff follies, he and the Republican majority in Congress (remember Congress?) are now embarked on fiscal follies, turning the annual federal budget-writing process into an exercise in overreach and hubris. They're trying to write a budget that is crammed with Trump's entire legislative agenda of tax cuts and slashed spending, even calling it by Trump's own term: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. As with tariffs, beauty is in the eye of the beholder — and the Republicans' infighting so far is not a pretty sight. Divided Republicans in the House delayed committee action this week and Senate Republicans held a retreat on Wednesday to air differences away from the Capitol. They aim to extend Trump's expiring 2017 tax cuts and to fulfill his 2024 campaign promises to end taxes on tips, overtime pay and Social Security benefits — for a cost of $9.1 trillion over 10 years, according to the nonpartisan Peter G. Peterson Foundation. That's more than Trump added to the federal debt in his first term, a record. Republicans' goal is to offset just $1.5 trillion of the lost tax revenues by cutting spending — more than half from Medicaid — even as they inflate spending for the military and border enforcement. Easy prediction: They'll fall way short and the debt will explode, again. Markets and voters won't react well. The president and his party have all the power in Washington. Which means, try as Trump might, there's no one else to blame when things go awry. @jackiekcalmes
Russia Today
09-02-2025
- Business
- Russia Today
Liberal NGOs in crisis: the fallout of Trump's USAID freeze
If you've spent any time on social media recently, particularly X, you might have noticed a pattern. Media outlets, NGOs, and human rights groups with a liberal slant are posting about financial trouble. Some plead for public donations, while others announce layoffs and budget cuts. What's causing this sudden turmoil? In many cases, it boils down to the suspension of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). For decades, this agency has been a lifeline for countless 'grant seekers.' With the freeze in operations, many of these groups now find themselves at a breaking point. A Giant in Chaos USAID is the largest source of official US financial aid abroad, with an annual budget running into the tens of billions of dollars. These funds fuel hundreds of projects worldwide. While some initiatives address genuine concerns like poverty, hunger, and environmental protection, others have a more ambiguous purpose, such as 'building civil society' or 'developing democracy.' Often, these projects serve as vehicles for advancing US political interests, sometimes with covert ties to intelligence agencies. Between 2022 and 2024, USAID disbursed nearly $120 billion globally. The largest beneficiary was Ukraine, which received over $32 billion, funding everything from government operations to 90% of the country's media outlets. Moldova was another major recipient, where USAID financed energy independence projects and media aligned with the government. Other countries in the post-Soviet space saw millions funneled into 'democracy-building' efforts. In 2024 alone, USAID poured over $40 million into Georgian civil society projects, $20 million into Armenia, and $11 million into Belarus. Even after officially ceasing operations in Russia in 2012, USAID quietly continued its activities, with $60 million earmarked for 11 programs in 2025-2026, including 'Strengthening Local Governance in the North Caucasus' and 'New Media' initiatives. Read more Trump's return to power: Revolution or repeat? The Trump Effect: Closing Shop In January 2025, everything changed. US President Donald Trump froze all foreign aid for 90 days. This was followed by a dramatic shake-up: USAID's headquarters was raided by DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) agents, and Elon Musk declared the agency was effectively 'shut down.' For decades, USAID's funding had been a critical support system for pro-Western and opposition structures in Russia and beyond. Now, many of these organizations find themselves adrift, their stable funding having evaporated overnight. Yet celebrating this development as a triumph may be premature. Trump's Real Plan for USAID The USAID freeze isn't about dismantling the agency entirely. Rather, it's a restructuring to wrest control from the Democrats, who previously used it to push left-liberal values globally. Trump's goal is to transform USAID into a tool for his administration's conservative agenda. As he bluntly put it: '[it has] been run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and we're getting them out,' while Musk called it 'a criminal organization' and said it was 'time for it to die.' Under Trump's plan, USAID will be integrated into the State Department, now headed by Marco Rubio. Funding will not disappear – it will be redirected. Instead of backing progressive initiatives, grants will support projects that align with traditional values, patriotism, and the revived 'American Dream.' The beneficiaries will shift from liberal activists to conservative organizations promoting these ideals. Geographically, funding priorities may also change, focusing more on Europe and Latin America. Regardless of these shifts, the primary mission of advancing the US interests will remain intact. Read more Why Trump's assault on USAID could change US foreign policy forever The Grant Seekers' Dilemma The suspension of USAID has created chaos among the vast network of Russian organizations reliant on its funding. But they won't go down without a fight. Some will perform ideological backflips, rebranding themselves as Trump-aligned supporters to secure new funding streams. Others will pivot to European donors or private backers like disgraced 1990s oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. A few will downsize, trimming staff and budgets, but continue to operate independently. The hardest hit will be the smallest and most ideologically rigid groups, unable or unwilling to adapt. They will likely disappear altogether, but these are the exceptions. What Comes Next? Trump's USAID overhaul signals a broader shift in the US foreign policy. Rather than promoting American hegemony as a global ruler, the focus will shift to transactional politics – achieving specific interests through direct negotiations or force. This pragmatic approach is fundamentally different from the ideological export model that defined the agency's previous decades. While this may lead to a more streamlined and focused USAID, it also poses a new challenge for countries like Russia. A restructured agency equipped with digital tools and data analytics could make grant distribution even more efficient and targeted, amplifying the US influence in key regions. For Russia, the lesson is clear: complacency is not an option. To counter this evolving threat, Moscow must develop its own 'soft power' tools, crafting competing narratives and adapting strategies to the modern geopolitical landscape. The 1990s model of direct confrontation is outdated. As the Trump administration redefines America's global image, the ideological battlefield is shifting. Russia must be prepared to meet these challenges head-on. The fight for influence is far from over – it's only just beginning. This article was first published by the online newspaper and was translated and edited by the RT team
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Southwest border encounters drop nearly 75% since inauguration
(NewsNation) — Migrant encounters on the nation's southwest border have plummeted by 74% since President Donald Trump took office, DHS data obtained by NewsNation revealed. In the first 15 days of Trump's second term, the southwest border has seen some 12,500 migrant encounters in total. That averages around 833 each day. That's lower than the president's first-week average, 1,050. In the past eight days alone, encounter averages have sunk further to 650 daily. Border agent's slaying could be tied to 'death cult': Police On Feb. 1, Border Patrol saw fewer than 400 encounters, with data showing about 390 migrants illegally crossing the southern border Saturday. By comparison, for the last 3 months of 2024, we were at 3,223 on average per day. Department of Homeland Security sources attribute the steep drop to 'The Trump Effect.' Trump spent his first week in office bringing the U.S.-Mexico border to the nation's center stage. His first actions included signing a slew of executive orders to curtail immigration and deport unauthorized migrants already in the country. One order, signed on Day 1, shut down the CBP One app, canceling all outstanding appointments made by migrants seeking visas. Others designated cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, attempted to end birthright citizenship and shuttered the U.S. refugee program. Immigration officers are also now permitted to enter sensitive locations like schools and churches to conduct raids. Cartel war escalates, creates new threat at southern border He also deployed around 4,000 more personnel from the Army, National Guard and the Marines to the border, making good on his promise to bolster military presence. In the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations and arrests have escalated, averaging more than 1,000 arrests per day. The agency is aiming for 1,500 daily arrests. But with nearly 1.5 million migrants set to be deported, where will they go? Trump said tens of thousands of migrants, considered 'the worst of the worst,' will be heading to Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Fox News
27-01-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Columbia Messed with the Wrong POTUS!
Columbia rejected at least two deportation flights filled with criminal aliens but quickly changed course thanks to 'The Trump Effect.' I'm Tomi Lahren, more next. According to US officials, Columbia initially rejected at least two repatriation flights from the US, each carrying a large number of criminal illegal aliens. This order was reportedly at the behest of Colombian President Gustavo Petro who, on social media, basically expressed that taking back these criminal aliens would be an insult to the criminal aliens. More likely, he simply doesn't want criminals back on his turf. Either way, the Trump Administration didn't stand for it. Part of President Trump's planned retaliation included emergency 25% tariffs on all Columbian goods coming into the US which would have been raised to 50% after a week. Trump also floated the idea of a travel ban and immediate visa revocations on Colombian government officials, allies and supporters. Colombia took him at his word and quickly reversed course, offering to even ASSIST in the repatriation effort! That was quick! I'm Tomi Lahren and you watch my show 'Tomi Lahren is Fearless' at Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
