WASHINGTON — Today, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced that in a single month under President Trump, more than 20,000 illegal aliens were arrested.
That’s a 627% increase in monthly arrests, compared to just 33,000 at large arrests under Biden for ALL of last year.
A statement from Secretary Noem is below:
“President Trump and this Administration are saving lives every day because of the actions we are taking to secure the border and deport illegal alien criminals. Hundreds of thousands of criminals were let into this country illegally. We are sending them home, and they will never be allowed to return.”
There has also been a 93% decrease in encounters with those conducting illegal border crossings, an 85% decrease in border apprenhensions and over 1,000 lbs of Fentanyl have been seized by U.S. authorities.
About Kristi Noem
Kristi Noem is the 8th Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
Prior to serving in President Trump’s cabinet, Secretary Noem proudly served as South Dakota’s 33rd Governor and the state’s first ever female governor. She was re-elected in 2022 with the largest vote total in the history of South Dakota.
Before serving as Governor, she served as South Dakota’s sole member of the U.S. House of Representatives and in the South Dakota legislature for years.
A South Dakota native, Secretary Noem is a rancher, farmer, small business owner, and proud mother and grandmother.
Santa Ana is Orange County’s First Sanctuary City
In 2016, Santa Ana became the first city in Orange County to declare itself a sanctuary city.
The city adopted an ordinance that prohibits city staff and resources from being used to enforce immigration law.
Sanctuary policies are based on the idea that the federal government cannot force local jurisdictions to participate in immigration enforcement.
There is no official definition of what constitutes a sanctuary city.
In general, sanctuary cities limit the extent to which a local government will share information with federal immigration law officers.
California is also a sanctuary state, meaning that the state prohibits local law enforcement agencies from using resources to investigate, detain, report, or arrest people for immigration violations.
