At a press briefing, Karoline Leavitt touted Trump's new executive orders.
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00:00After these are signed, the president will have signed more than 140 executive orders already,
00:06rapidly approaching the total number signed by the Biden administration over the course of four
00:11years in office. Speaking of Joe Biden, it was his awful open border policies that recklessly allowed
00:18more than 10 million illegal aliens to invade the United States over the past four years.
00:24Innocent Americans like Lakin Riley, Jocelyn Nungray, Rachel Morin, and so many others were
00:29viciously murdered at the hands of these illegal aliens as a result of Biden's dereliction of duty.
00:35That's why one of President Trump's central campaign promises was to secure the border and
00:39end this invasion. In just under 100 days, 99 now to be exact, the president has overwhelmingly
00:46delivered on that promise. America's borders are now secure because of President Trump.
00:52He has restored the rule of law, enforced our immigration laws, and defended America's
00:57sovereignty. The president immediately declared a national emergency on the southern border,
01:02deployed the U.S. military and Border Patrol to repel the invasion, and ended reckless catch-and-release
01:07policies. The results have been nothing short of extraordinary. Between President Trump's
01:13inauguration in April 1 of this month, only nine illegal aliens were released into the United States,
01:19a staggering 99.99 percent decrease from the more than 184,000 illegal aliens who were released into
01:28the country under Biden during the same period last year. The number of unaccompanied illegal alien
01:33children arriving at the border has also hit a record low. Total attempted illegal crossings at the
01:39southwest border hit a record low in February, only to fall to another new record low again last month in
01:46March. Just listen to these incredible numbers. In March 2024, under Joe Biden, Border Patrol encountered
01:52approximately 140,000 illegal aliens at the southwest border. One year later, in March 2025, under President
02:00Trump, Border Patrol encountered just over 7,000 illegal aliens at the southwest border. That's another
02:0695 percent decrease from the prior year. The first piece of legislation President Trump signed into law was the
02:13Lake and Riley Act, which requires illegal aliens arrested or charged with theft or violence to be
02:18detained. President Trump also reestablished the successful remain in Mexico policy from his first
02:24term to ensure that aliens who arrive at our southern border and claim asylum are returned to Mexico to
02:30await their hearings instead of being allowed into our country while they wait. The president has also
02:35restarted construction of his signature advanced border wall. More than 85 miles of new border barrier are
02:41already in various stages of construction and planning. And Border Patrol, in collaboration with
02:47the Department of Defense and the great state of Texas, have deployed 75 additional miles of temporary
02:53barriers across the southern border. The Trump administration, as you know, has also ended the
02:57disastrous CBP One app, which Joe Biden exploited to facilitate the migration of nearly 1 million illegal
03:04aliens into the country. The Department of Homeland Security has relaunched this as the CBP Home app to
03:09provide illegal aliens in the U.S. a straightforward way to declare their intent to voluntarily depart.
03:16For years, Joe Biden's weakness and open border policies allowed vicious cartels to functionally
03:21control through a campaign of terror, rape and brutal force nearly all illegal traffic across the southern
03:27border. President Trump has put a stop to this in record time. He designated these heinous cartels as
03:34foreign terrorist organizations and invoked the Alien Enemies Act to immediately apprehend, detain,
03:39and remove these massive threats who have flooded our country with deadly drugs, violent criminals,
03:44and vicious gangs. The Trump administration is working 24-7 to successfully arrest and deport these
03:51illegal criminals and foreign terrorists from our communities. We are in the beginning stages of
03:55carrying out the largest deportation campaign in American history. Over this past weekend, it was announced
04:01that through Operation Tidal Wave, a joint effort between ICE Miami and Florida law enforcement
04:06agencies, nearly 800 illegal aliens were arrested during the first four days alone. Among those
04:13arrested were a Colombian murderer, alleged MS-13 and 18th Street gang members, and a Russian with a red
04:20notice for manslaughter. And on the other side of the country, in the early Sunday morning hours, DOJ and DHS
04:27together launched a joint raid of an illegal alien underground nightclub used by Trende Aragua in
04:33Colorado Springs, Colorado. DHS took more than 100 illegal aliens into custody, and many drugs and
04:39weapons were also seized. Operation Tidal Wave is a preview of what is what is to come around this country.
04:45Large-scale operations that employ our state and local enforcement partners to get criminal illegal aliens
04:51off our streets. As always, President Trump and our entire administration are grateful for the
04:56courageous law enforcement officers who are putting their lives on the line every single day to
05:00protect their fellow Americans and to keep our country safe. After four years of being vilified and
05:06hamstrung by the Biden administration, heroic ICE and CBP officers finally have a president who has their
05:12backs and is allowing them to do the jobs they signed up to do. There's no person who can attest to that
05:17more than our incredible borders are here at the White House. Tom Homan, who has dedicated his
05:21professional career to protecting our country and enforcing our country.