President Donald Trump's promise to launch the largest deportation operation in American history is already paying dividends, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arresting nearly 20,000 illegal aliens in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area in just three weeks since Trump returned to the White House.
The staggering numbers, first reported by the Washington Post and confirmed by Breitbart, represent a seismic shift from the Biden administration's catch-and-release policies that turned America into a sanctuary for foreign lawbreakers. Under Trump's leadership, ICE agents are finally allowed to do their jobs again.
Patriots Celebrate Trump Keeping His Word
Social media erupted with celebration as the news spread. Conservative activist @TexasTrump2024 shared the breaking report, highlighting how Trump is delivering on his campaign promises in record time. Meanwhile, supporter @keithpenny directed praise toward Trump, ICE, and DHS for the swift action while calling out Democrats who have consistently opposed immigration enforcement.
"ICE has arrested nearly 20,000 in Washington DC since Trump's return to White House," @keithpenny posted, tagging Trump and immigration agencies while simultaneously calling out Chuck Schumer, the Democrats, and radical groups like the ACLU who have fought against common-sense immigration enforcement.
The D.C. region has long been a magnet for illegal immigration, with the Biden administration's open border policies creating a massive population of foreign nationals living in the shadows around our nation's capital. Now, under Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's leadership, ICE is systematically removing those who have no legal right to be here.
Leftist Meltdown Intensifies
Predictably, the left is having a complete meltdown over Trump's success. Reports of anti-ICE protests erupting in places like Quakertown, Pennsylvania show how desperate Democrats and their activist allies have become. These same groups that cheered Biden's destruction of border security are now organizing resistance against the restoration of law and order.
This is exactly what 75 million Americans voted for in November. While establishment politicians talked tough on immigration for decades, Trump is the only president with the backbone to actually secure our borders and remove those who entered illegally.
Twenty thousand arrests in three weeks. If Trump keeps this pace, how many millions of illegal aliens will be removed by the end of his second term? More importantly, how long before Democrats admit their open borders agenda was a complete disaster for American families?