Andy Biggs Hammers Biden Admin's Border Policies, Celebrates Illegal Immigrant Arrests Under Trump

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During remarks on the House floor last week, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) spoke about the number of illegal immigrants arrested during the first month of the Trump Administration.

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00:00Thank you so much.

00:03It's my pleasure to be here tonight, appreciate my colleagues who are also members of the

00:09Border Security Caucus.

00:11For four years, we've stood here and exposed the open border policies of the Biden-Harris

00:16administration.

00:17For four years, we've seen what happens when the America First border security policies

00:21that President Trump had put in place were thrown out.

00:24And in just over one month, we've seen what happens when those policies are put back in

00:28place.

00:29Since President Trump took office, ICE agents have arrested more than 20,000 illegal aliens.

00:38That's just in one month.

00:40By comparison, Joe Biden only had 33,000 at-large arrests for the entire year of 2024.

00:47And when Joe Biden was in charge, over 300,000 illegal aliens crossed the border in just

00:53one month.

00:54In President Trump's first month, illegal crossings did not even reach 10,000.

00:58The actual number was 8,400.

01:01And whereas Biden let all of those people into the country without proper vetting, some

01:05of which were known criminals and terrorists that we're now trying to find, under President

01:10Trump, people who illegally crossed the border are stopped and immediately detained or removed.

01:16Because of President Biden's catch-and-release policies, every state had the pathologies

01:21of a border state.

01:24Because of this, immediately after taking office, President Trump charged ICE officers

01:28with cleaning up streets across the country by detaining the illegal aliens that Joe Biden

01:33had released into the country.

01:35And while they were attempting to prosecute him, President Trump, for bogus charges in

01:39multiple jurisdictions, the Biden regime was releasing actual criminals into every city

01:45in America.

01:47Tonight, we're going to be exposing the Biden-Harris administration's open border policies and

01:52President Trump's work to remove them.

01:55We'll highlight the tireless work of ICE agents tasked with arresting some of the worst

01:59individuals who have invaded our country, despite being demonized by the mainstream

02:04media and organized campaigns to interfere with and prevent arrests, including by exposing

02:09personal information of agents.

02:12In just one month, those agents have taken thousands of violent and malevolent offenders

02:16off of our streets.

02:18In just one month, President Trump has put an end to the endless invasion of our communities

02:23by illegal aliens.

02:25It's my pleasure now to yield to my co-chairman of the Border Security Caucus three minutes

02:33to the gentleman, Mr. Babin.

Andy Biggs Hammers Biden Admin's Border Policies, Celebrates Illegal Immigrant Arrests Under Trump

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