They Live and Work on the Border. Here’s What’s Changed Since Trump’s Return.
TIPP Staff
March 20, 2025 . 5:22 AM 3 min read
By Virginia Allen, The Daily Signal | March 18, 2025
It’s “beautiful” to see more Border Patrol agents back on the southern border since President Donald Trump entered the White House, Efrain Sella said. Sella spent 25 years with the Border Patrol before retiring in 2019. Speaking with The Daily Signal at the Big Bend Area Law Enforcement Officers Association’s March meeting, he said that “things are changing quick” at the border under the Trump administration.
“Now, we’re controlling the border,” Sella said. “We don’t have the gate open anymore. The door [is] not open to come in, like under President [Joe] Biden. So, now, with President Trump, there’s more resources coming in.”
Trump has reinstated the “Remain in Mexico” policy, which requires illegal aliens to wait in Mexico for an asylum hearing, ended “catch and release,” launched a mass-deportation effort focused on the arrest and removal of criminal illegal aliens, designated some criminal cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and taken a slew of other pro-border security measures.
“The fact that President Trump put the [cartels] on a terrorist organization
now, it’s a huge factor,” James Frietze, who spent 25 years serving in the New Mexico State Police before retiring in 2019, told The Daily Signal.
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