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‘All We Really Needed Was a New President’: The Defining Border Security Moments of 2025

From record‑low apprehensions to nationwide raids targeting criminal aliens, cartel operatives, and violent foreign gangs, 2025 marked the most dramatic border‑security turnaround in modern U.S. history. President Donald Trump’s return to office triggered a sweeping enforcement shift that reshaped federal, state, and local operations from the Rio Grande to New York City.

‘All We Really Needed Was a New President’: The Defining Border Security Moments of 20

U.S. Southern Border: Christmas This Year vs. Last

Last Christmas, the U.S. southern border was the epicenter of a national crisis. One year later, it is the centerpiece of a political victory lap, as the Trump administration touts record‑low crossings, aggressive enforcement, and what officials call “the most secure border in American history.”

U.S. Southern Border: Christmas This Year vs. Last (U.S. Border Patrol)

U.S. Snatches Venezuela Oil Tanker in Dark‑Hour Strike on Narco‑Terror Funding

In a stealth operation carried out before dawn on Dec. 20, the U.S. Coast Guard—working alongside the Department of War—seized an oil tanker last seen in the terrorist state of Venezuela. The United States accused the ship’s operators of moving sanctioned crude to fuel narco‑terror activity. Officials issued a stark warning to traffickers: “We will find you, and we will stop you.

Venezuelan oil

DHS: Biden Released Chinese Illegal Alien with New York CDL Killed Tennessee Trucker – Feds Blast Sanctuary Licensing Practices

A fatal crash in Tennessee has ignited a national firestorm over New York’s commercial driver licensing practices. Following an inquiry from Breitbart Texas, federal officials confirmed the bus driver responsible was an illegal alien from China who failed basic English proficiency, yet still obtained a New York CDL. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy threatened earlier this week to strip the state of $73 million in federal highway funds unless it revokes licenses issued to illegal aliens.

DHS: Biden Released Chinese Illegal Alien with New York CDL Killed Tennessee Trucker (PHOT

Trump’s Border Policy Delivers: Zero Migrant Releases for 6th Month, Record-Low Apprehensions in October

The Trump administration’s border crackdown is delivering results: October 2025 marked the lowest number of illegal border crossings in CBP history, and it was the sixth straight month of zero releases by U.S. Border Patrol. With just 30,561 encounters nationwide—down 79% from October 2024—DHS officials credit President Trump’s leadership and a no-excuses enforcement strategy for restoring control and deterring illegal entry at a scale unseen in modern times.

U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Big Bend Sector take part in a binational patrol called

500 Firearms Bound for Mexico Seized at Texas Border — 2 Arrested

Federal authorities charged two Alabama residents with trafficking hundreds of firearms after uncovering what officials are calling the largest weapons seizure at the Southwest border—more than 500 guns allegedly bound for a Mexican drug cartel, hidden in false-walled trailers intercepted at the Juarez-Lincoln Port of Entry in Laredo, Texas. Authorities allege the pair intended to smuggle the weapons into Mexico on behalf of a Mexican drug cartel.

Father and Son Charged in Record-Breaking Border Gun Smuggling Case Tied to Mexican Cartel