WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 03: U.S. President Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan speaks to members of the press at the White House ground on September 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Trump administration has deployed federal officers and the National Guard to the District in order to place the DC Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and assist in crime prevention in the nation's capital. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Homan: Trump admin. on track to deport 600K illegal aliens this year, in addition to 1.6M who already self-deported

Border Czar Tom Homan says the administration is on track to deport approximately 600,000 illegal aliens by the end of the year, in addition to the 1.6 million who have already voluntarily left the United States — bringing the total number of removals and voluntary departures to over 2 million since President Trump resumed office.

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(Background) House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks to the press at the U.S. Capitol on October 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images) / (L) WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 15: U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, speaks to the media as he departs the White House on July 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is traveling to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to speak at an artificial intelligence and energy summit. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Leavitt responds to Jeffries’ insults, calling him an ‘America last, stone-cold loser’ amid ongoing govt shutdown

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt fiercely rebuked House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries this week, labeling him an “America Last, stone-cold loser” in a powerful retort to his attempt to belittle her with divisive and demeaning rhetoric.

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View of the US-Mexico border wall in Nogales, Arizona on September 17, 2025. As of 2022, approximately 11 million people lived in the United States illegally, according to government figures. And this figure may have risen since then to as many as 14 million, according to the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute. Undocumented workers paid $97 billion in taxes in 2022 alone, according to Americans for Tax Fairness. Figures from 2024 from the US Labor Department said nearly half of the foreign-born workforce in America is Latino. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

‘MOST SECURE border in American history’: Illegal southern border crossings drop to lowest annual level in over 50 years

The Trump administration ended fiscal year 2025 with the lowest amount of United States Border Patrol apprehensions since 1970. As a testament to the administration’s success, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also reported the lowest total monthly illegal border encounters ever recorded.

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