In August 2024, the Border Patrol released 10,186 illegal aliens into the country in a single month. In August 2026, it released zero, for the 16th straight month. Catch and release is over, apprehensions are 94 percent below the Biden average, and more than 3 million people have left. Almost all of it was done with laws already on the books, which means almost all of it could be undone by the next administration or by a Congress that defunds ICE and the Border Patrol. Jenny Beth Martin spends the full hour with Rosemary Jenks on the numbers behind the turnaround, the sanctuary governors and mayors fighting it, the Permanent Trump Secure Border Act that would write it into law, and the visa and benefits fraud investigations that reached nine universities, the world's biggest outsourcing firms, and a sitting member of Congress. Election Day is 21 days away.
Guest: Rosemary Jenks, co-founder and policy director of the Immigration Accountability Project, who testified before the House Judiciary Committee in September on what Congress must do to make the Trump border policies permanent.
Today's topics:
• Border Patrol released 10,186 illegal aliens in August 2024. In August 2026 it released zero, the 16th straight month at zero.
• Nearly 2.5 million southern border apprehensions in fiscal 2023, more people than live in Houston. In August 2026: 8,870, 94 percent below the Biden monthly average.
• Catch and release is over, and the White House says more than 3 million people have left the country since President Trump took office, most of them on their own.
• Asylum grants fall from more than 50 percent of cases under President Biden to about 7 percent. Fentanyl trafficking at the southern border down 56 percent in a year.
• Sanctuary states: New York has refused 16,070 ICE detainer requests covering more than 52,000 criminal charges and convictions. Why the jail is safer than the street.
• New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani used the city's official account to hand people summoned by ICE a hotline and a legal plan.
• The Mass Deportation Playbook called for 1 million removals in 2026; the Republican National Committee counts more than 356,000 so far.
• The Permanent Trump Secure Border Act passed the House Judiciary Committee in July and still awaits a floor vote. What it locks in, and why that matters when everything so far was done with existing law.
• Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed posted "Abolish ICE," the same demand the Democratic Socialists of America issued this weekend. What a Congress run by the left does to DHS funding.
• E-Verify left out of the border bill, and what Congress should do after the Supreme Court ruled against President Trump's birthright citizenship order.
• The Labor Department suspended Microsoft, Adobe, and major outsourcing firms from the green card sponsorship program. Microsoft laid off 6,000 American workers while approved for more than 6,000 H-1B visas.
• A J-1 visa fraud investigation into nine universities, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and MIT. Optional Practical Training was never authorized by Congress.
• An Ohio trucking company told the Department of Transportation it owned 23,001 trucks, all run out of a single apartment.
• Federal agents executed a search warrant at Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington home in an ongoing immigration-paperwork investigation; no charges have been filed. Why Minnesota keeps showing up in federal fraud cases.
• The White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud has identified more than 235 billion dollars so far, about 690 dollars for every person in America.
• The assignment: 10 ways to help before Election Day at iwillsaveamerica.com, and friendshelpfriendsvote.com for the people in your life who are not sure they will vote.
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