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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Reveals the
Number of Illegal Aliens Who Have Self-Deported—and
It's Huge

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 8/17/2025 6:59:13 AM

Joe Biden and company told us it couldn’t be done—the border couldn’t be fixed without complex new legislation and gobs of money. Turns out that wasn’t true; all we needed was a new president. One who was willing to take command of the situation and enforce the laws already on the books. That president is Donald Trump, and in his second (non-consecutive) term, he has virtually shut down the southern border after Biden ushered in millions of illegal aliens with his “let them all come in” policy. But it’s not just ICE repatriations and a tight border that are at play here: as Trump promised on the campaign trail,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Strike3 8/17/2025 7:42:14 AM (No. 1991667)
That's over 6,000 plane loads, much faster progress than the democrats have estimated.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: PostAway 8/17/2025 8:28:04 AM (No. 1991707)
We know that there are possibly >20-30M in the country. When the number shows there are none left I’ll rejoice. Until then, keep up the good job.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Venturer 8/17/2025 8:30:12 AM (No. 1991710)
Many will stop and many who are already here will leave if we stop the goodies. Offer free lodging free education, food stamps and free health care and anyone would be foolish not to come. Things Americans have to pay for offered free to illegals while veterans are homeless in the streets.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: cThree 8/17/2025 9:14:51 AM (No. 1991745)
Democrats are aghast, partly because they see Congressional seats evaporating if Trump pulls off a new census before his term ends. But truth to tell, the Dems themselves are providing much of the momentum behind this exodus by scaring illegals half to death with outright lies: Trump is arresting people because they're brown, dragging children out of school, and Alligator Alcatraz is worse than Dachau, etc. In my opinion, the more panic stricken these media people and Democrats look, the better. Go for it! Keep tearing up while declaring this is a racist policy dragging people with accented English straight out of church to concentration camps, etc. (I paraphrase a tad, maybe.) Republicans couldn't get away with those outright lies, but as far as scaring people into leaving, they work wonders.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Sunhan65 8/17/2025 10:21:39 AM (No. 1991786)
One of the many things that surprised me about President Trump's first term was the extent to which he tried to keep his campaign promises to us. It surprised me all the more because I don't honestly think he is a conservative in any meaningful ideological way. However, he had run on conservative ideas, and he governed based on them to the greatest extent he could. That's integrity, no matter how much his occasional lapses may bother some people. Similarly, if you told me before this election that President Trump would go to these lengths to deport illegal aliens, I would have been surprised. It seemed impossible. But if politics is the art of the possible, the art of President Trump's deal is about changing what's possible. He does things that people say he can't--perhaps, indeed, because they say he can't. As such, he is an extraordinary American in the literal sense, and he is one of our most consequential presidents.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: thefield 8/17/2025 10:30:12 AM (No. 1991791)
It doesn't breakdown self or assisted deportations.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: John Moses Browning 8/17/2025 12:00:53 PM (No. 1991833)
When is the arrest, prosecution, and punishment for the communist traitor Mayorkas, who engineered the invasion?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 8/17/2025 12:51:43 PM (No. 1991863)
A huge number of illegal Dem votes are GONE. This is good news.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: bighambone 8/17/2025 1:36:28 PM (No. 1991884)
You got to figure that whatever the numbers of really dug in illegal aliens there are in the Democrat run so-called “Sanctuary Cities” and States, that it was not them who took the opportunity to depart from the USA voluntarily. Unfortunately it is those millions of dug in illegal aliens, many of them criminals or that are benefiting by being on public assistance programs who would fraudulently cast ballots for the leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrats in upcoming elections. That’s why the Democrats do not want any illegal aliens to be removed from the USA either by departing voluntarily or by formally being deported.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: JHHolliday 8/17/2025 4:27:43 PM (No. 1991950)
#9, of course, reveals the Dems lust for open borders....votes. They aren't 'humanitarians'. They just want the votes. Likewise, they really don't care about the damage to our cities and country. Overloaded schools, hospitals, crime, jails and the welfare costs. Hotel rooms, SNAP cards, free health care and on and on. Just the votes, legal or otherwise, and a path to permanent power.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: bighambone 8/17/2025 11:31:47 PM (No. 1992069)
I can remember back 55 years ago in California when masses of Mexican illegal aliens loaded up the busses to take them to San Diego and the Port of Entry at San Ysidro as they returned to their families in Mexico for the Christmas holidays.
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