DHS Pushes Back on Media Narratives: ‘Six Months of Keeping America Safe’
The percentage of criminal alien arrests remains the same, but the president’s opponents aren’t happy because he’s arresting more aliens, period
By Andrew R. Arthur on July 24, 2025
DHS pushed back this week against media narratives claiming its deportation efforts under the current administration have been lackluster with a fact sheet titled: “Six Months of Keeping America Safe Under President Trump and Secretary Noem”. For some historical perspective, here’s a dive into the current stats — and a few from the past.
Darien Gap Migration Plummets
The one immigration enforcement effort that even the president’s most implacable opponents agree has been a success is securing the Southwest border, where apprehensions of illegal migrants have dropped to all-time lows.
That fact sheet notes that, “Daily border encounters have plunged by 93% since President Trump took office”, but that is somewhat old news I have been reporting on for months now.
Much newsier is the fact that “migration through Panama’s Darien Gap is down 99%”, which may be the single biggest humanitarian achievement of Trump II. Let me explain.
As the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) described the region in June 2024:
https://cis.org/Arthur/DHS-Pushes-Back-Media-Narratives-Six-Months-Keeping-America-Safe
