Pew Research: Migrant Encounters At The U.S. Mexico Border Are At Their Lowest Level In More Than 50 Years

In the comment section, I said that I would post good news if I came across it. The U.S.-Mexico border remains the biggest success story of Donald Trump’s second term.

Pew Research:

“U.S. Border Patrol encounters with migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico have fallen to their lowest level in more than 50 years, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of statistics from the federal government.

The Border Patrol recorded 237,538 encounters with migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in the 2025 fiscal year, which began in October 2024 and ended in September 2025. That was down from more than 1.5 million encounters in fiscal 2024, more than 2 million in fiscal 2023 and a record of more than 2.2 million in fiscal 2022. The 2025 total was the lowest in any fiscal year since 1970, according to historical data from the Border Patrol. …”

Just to be crystal clear, I am not in the “whitepiller” or “blackpiller” camps on Donald Trump’s immigration policy. Federale is the best representative of the “whitepiller” position.

Federale:

“There is a desperate campaign being waged by the losers from the long defunct National Justice Party (NJP) their former hangers-on, and other professional blackpillers. Their refrain is that nothing is being done, everything if fake and gay, basically they are repeating the Mike Peinovich lies as they are apparently less intelligent that the jew Peinovich. The current specific claim that Trump is doing nothing on So our professional blackpillers are left looking like fools, creating some wild 5-dimensional chess that the jews are playing, while aligning themselves with domestic Muslims, mostly Sunni who don’t care about Iran, the very Sunnis they claim are creatures of Israel, and separating themselves from the American people who don’t like Muslims. The late adherents of the NJP are determined to align themselves with the people that Americans generally detest, Muslims of any stripe. The NJPers think that if they create an alliance with Palestinians and Iranians they will somehow win elections in America. However, they cannot explain how Iran will rescue them when Iran declined to rescue Hamas or Hezbollah, their allies, and waited to attack Israel after both had gone down to defeat in detail by Israel. It is best not to ally with someone who will let you be destroyed by the jews. …”

José Alberto Niño is the best representative of the “blackpiller” position.

José Niño:

“The Trump administration has deployed thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to Minnesota in what amounts to little more than political theater. Two Americans are already dead from this operation, yet the state hosts a fraction of the illegal immigrant population found in Republican strongholds like Texas, Florida, and Georgia.

The numbers tell a damning story. Minnesota is home to roughly 130,000 illegal immigrants, representing about 2.2% of the state’s population according to Pew Research. That figure accounts for less than 1% of the national illegal population of 14 million that Pew highlighted. A controversial 2018 Yale study by researchers affiliated with Princeton claimed the national figure could be as high as 22 million. Even accepting the highest mainstream estimates, Minnesota’s 130,000 represents a drop in the bucket. …”

My position is between these two extremes.

Trump deserves credit for getting the border under control and gutting the refugee resettlement program. At the same time, “mass deportations” haven’t happened, construction of the border wall has been too slow and the theatrical standoffs with caped libtards in sanctuary cities is burning up too much political capital. Legal immigration including H-1B visas has been cut, but Trump is selling U.S. citizenship with his Gold Card program and Congress has doubled H-2B visas for Big Ag. Congress and the Trump administration have also refused to crackdown on employers of illegal aliens. No permanent changes have been made to our immigration system which can’t be reversed by the next Democratic president.

23 Comments

  1. Trump’s highly visible interior enforcement has successfully bluffed would-be migrants into cancelling or delaying their plans, because it seems plausible that Trump might actually escalate to a real mass deportation, in which case the cost of migrating will be wasted.

    If Trump doesn’t continue to escalate enforcement, if he lets it be known that 2025 levels of interior enforcement will never increase, then illegal immigration will recommence. That is what happened in 2017 when would-be migrants concluded that Trump’s talk of mass deportation was a bluff.

  2. Federale is correct. I miss his realist write ups. If you actually look behind the online visage of most of these insane clowns he mentions, you will find them heavily brown, ethnic and Papist. Basically, they have even replaced the Nazis. Lol

    • I always liked Federale back in the day when he wrote for Vdare. Glad to see he has a substack. Maybe I’ll subscribe. At least half of those who worship the Austrian painter are hasbara. One rarely sees an actual discussion of national socialism, which was started before Hitler and has move on from 1933-35 Germany. Too many of the fanbois (omitting the hasbara) lose sight of the big picture with Hitler: He failed miserably

      • >>> He failed miserably

        When attached by three gigantic empires on three fronts, yes anyone would fail.

        If anything, his extremely high ethics crippled him.

        • He foolishly thought the British Empire would be logical and reasonable. Should have bagged them at Dunkirk instead of letting them go, thinking it would be appreciated. In the end, what did they fight for? They lost the Empire and the British people have lost their freedom, and are being ethnically cleansed by scum from their former holdings.

  3. “Trump deserves credit for getting the border under control and gutting the refugee resettlement program.”

    The border was “secured” only because of Trump’s loud mouth. It’s the scarecrow effect. Refugees were capped because of the Conservative obsession with fiscal austerity, not demographic composition. That’s why everything else is still wide open and Mexican ICE agents are wrestling with white libs in Minnesota over coal black Somalis. America is just a colony of Israel and always will be, nothing more or less. It’s okay to admit you were wrong in 2025 and the loathsome wignats like me were right about literally everything.

  4. Welp, because Hunter just biatches so much and goes doom spiraling into black pilling himself and everyone around him, the DHS Secretary has found it necessary to go to the border and help pull Hunter out of depression.

    DHS Secretary Noem will be specifically addressing Hunter’s lame accusations about “Dumpf” and the wall. In her speech she should give a tell just to Hunter, so hopefully he watches it and can then tell us what he thinks. How does this keep happening? Hmmmm…..

    • She built 27 miles of wall in 2025.

      I’m not “black pilling.” It is not like building the wall even matters. It didn’t stop Biden from waving in 10 million or so illegal aliens. Many of them were flown directly into the country.

      • Did you watch her speech? Did she give any crypto signals to you? What did you think of her speech and answers to your issues?

      • > It didn’t stop Biden from waving in 10 million or so illegal aliens. Many of them were flown directly into the country.

        Won’t stop a “President” Newsome from waving in even more. The fraud is a very serious matter too. If Trump et al sent in ICE because of the massive fraud uncovered, why weren’t the ICE folks arresting the various criminals involved in the fraud – the vast majority of whom are naturalized citizens? The retardery is truly remarkable.

  5. Whether Jeffrey Epstein took his own life six months after this staged interview with the unbearable Bannon, or was murdered, remains a subject of worldwide speculation.

    When he cleverly puts on his farsighted glasses, his otherwise devious and dangerous-looking little mouse eyes suddenly become completely harmless and trustworthy, even somehow pitiful.

    One could almost believe that he was in fact a downright amiable man who was completely misunderstood and made a scapegoat by an inquisitorial modern world that projected all its malice and depravity onto and into him.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3QWWHFzfOI

    What is now certain, at least, is that Epstein believed Newton’s statement that gravity means that masses or bodies exert a mutual attraction on each other, even if this is invisible, but he did not believe in “astrology” (which ultimately claims the same thing with regard to planets).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM

    On the other hand, he believed in the concept of the “soul,” which “leaves the body after death” (we do not learn exactly where his soul went), but that this cannot (yet) be explained even with the most modern methods, which are still based on a too mechanistic or mathematical-technocratic worldview.

    Furthermore, the monetary economy is such a complex phenomenon that it remains practically inexplicable. Here, the variable of sheer incalculable chance in the equation is an extraordinarily fixed quantity that can manifest itself in a landslide manner under certain circumstances. Incidentally, chance is associated with the sign of Aquarius, under which Mr. Epstein was born.

    https://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Jeffrey_Epstein

    In their efforts to spread their brown genes at our expense in our territory, these insolent and hypocritical invaders can always rely on ideologically indoctrinated and socially established left-wing white feminist women, who hold the gates wide open to the promised land of the evil white man, who is jointly declared the arch-enemy.

    The systemic oppression of women by the oh so welcomed thirdworlders, such as in Islam or in India, no longer plays any role.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMc8826UBrY

    Left-liberal “professor” Cox Richardson is a typical representative of this category, which serves to propagate supposed ‘democracy’ as a vehicle for “diversification,” i.e., the browning of the last white refuges in the world.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Cox_Richardson

    She enjoys listening to herself “talk politics” for hours on her YouTube channel and giving her two cents on everything, and was even invited to the White House for an interview by senile Joe Biden, to whom America owes the largest influx of third-world immigrants since its existence, and who publicly stated with a kind of perverse pride that he would welcome white people becoming an absolute minority in their own country in the future. Grotesque to the point of hilarity.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRyaDw8B9qI
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGRXnB_GQcM

    Ms. Cox Richardson is an unwavering advocate of what she considers “American” values, which is also reflected in her declaration that her home country is a role model for the entire world, even though Sleepy Joe emphasized to her that, outrageously, there are fewer and fewer “democracies” in the world (how did that happen?).

    She was pleased that the “coup d’état” [sic] of Jan 6 failed and considers the Trump administration, which she says is modeled on Nazi author Carl Schmitt, to be “fascist.”

    Not a word, of course, about the murder of white patriot Ashli Babbit by a trigger-happy Negro in uniform, because suddenly women don’t count anymore. Ms. Cox Richardson alone has the authority to define what true “American patriotism” means.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU-H4vFjM98
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuHUN-8XjT8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQPOHCoTbgE

    Needless to say, “General Eisenhower” was not a war criminal in her eyes, but rather the forefather of the “civil rights movement.”

    Consequently, America cannot be a warmongering pseudo-cultural empire that plunges the whole world into chaos on behalf of its Jewish rulers and triggers migration flows of unprecedented proportions toward white countries.

    The world should be infinitely and eternally grateful to heroic America for defeating the evil white man Hitler (even though it was actually their “allied” Bolsheviks).

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2dS6uX1RkUzrYor1Mkn7rLG3M3xbvQp-

    “Declaration in Action” (through tough feminist heroines)

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2dS6uX1RkUzIhvfzi1zPwdgTDv9NNnJK

    .

    • Many average people do not understand that ideas are thoughts, but thoughts are not necessarily ideas. Ideas are resourceful solutions to problems through higher logic.

      Therefore, by definition, there can be no such thing as “bad ideas,” only bad and stupid thoughts that are generally and mistakenly referred to as “ideas” by average citizens.

      (One) “Aquarian” principle par excellence:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity

      Let us examine whether “astrology” can be proven with the help of AI by conducting a simple thought experiment using a statement by Epstein that is prototypical for Aquarius in an interview with the fame-seeking, incomprehensibly vain Sagittarius Bannon:

      I asked AI:

      Which zodiac sign would you associate with the following statement made by one of its representatives: “I am not wowed by people of position. I’m wowed by people of great ideas. And I don’t care if it’s the bus driver. I don’t care if it’s the student who has teeth strict coming out.”

      AI answers:

      The statement—“I am not wowed by people of position. I’m wowed by people of great ideas. And I don’t care if it’s the bus driver. I don’t care if it’s the student who has teeth strict coming out”—most strongly resonates with Aquarius energy in astrology.

      Why Aquarius fits

      • Aquarius is associated with humanitarian values, intellectual curiosity, and a deep respect for ideas over status.

      • People born under Aquarius often admire innovation and originality in anyone, regardless of their job title or social standing, which matches the line about being impressed by “people of great ideas” rather than “people of position.”

      Other possible signs

      • Virgo and Capricorn also value humility and substance over showiness, but they lean more toward practical service and quiet achievement than the explicitly egalitarian, idea?driven tone here.

      • Pisces and Cancer share empathy and humility, but their emphasis is more on emotion and care than on celebrating ideas across all social roles.

      In short, the quote’s egalitarian, idea?focused attitude points most clearly to Aquarius.

      https://www.perplexity.ai/search/which-zodiac-sign-would-you-as-s4bAGgOQSluZDftw1OK6ZQ

      https://youtubetotranscript.com/transcript?v=d3QWWHFzfOI

  6. “If you went back in time to 2017, during the early chaos of the first Trump Administration, and told people on rightwing Twitter that illegal immigration through the Southern border had dropped to its lowest level since 1970, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division had been gutted, disparate impact liability was no longer government policy, ICE was conducting what amounted to terror raids on sanctuary cities, the EEOC was aggressively soliciting complaints about anti-white discrimination in the workplace, refugee admissions had been paused except for white South Africans, the foreign born population was declining for the first time since 1970, training of new border patrol agents had increased to all time highs, several American cities were being patrolled by federal anti-crime taskforces that were arresting thousands of criminals, the State Department had formal plans to create an Office of Remigration, the US had experienced the largest single-year drop in murder rate in recorded history, new Indian student enrollment was down 75% in just a year, the Treasury Department was targeting the funding of Antifa, which had been designated a terror network and was cut off from its traditional funding mechanisms, DHS was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on football field-sized detention centers in multiple states, legal immigration was on track to decline by as much as 1/2 by the end of Trump’s term, along with countless other developments that would have seemed like fantasies back then, they would probably think that Richard Spencer had become President. You’d have to explain that most big personalities from that period actually hate all the progress that’s occurring today and are pushing to hand political control back to liberals. Three more years of this, we’re in a different country. Eleven more years of this, we’re in a different world.”
    -Mystery Grove

    I believe MG best represents the optimist position, and I agree with him. I’m quite surprised to see far more pessimism now when he’s actually doing things than his first term, where it seemed, at least from the outside, that Trump was largely a lame duck President.

    • “I’m quite surprised to see far more pessimism now when he’s actually doing things than his first term.”

      I am not. It’s totally in keeping with both the grift of so many on the right and or their job as agents of the Democrat Underground Headquarter’s (D.U.H.) directives.

      Meanwhile, Backstabber Bannon is revealing what the cognosati like myself already knew, Epstein was a Rockefeller oil boy. That makes him adjedent to Hunter. Imagine investigating the Epstein-Wallace conspiracy, a salacious tail of underage girls gone wild, oil money in politics, Judenhate, and sabotage of nationalism.

      • Rockefeller’s boy or Rothschild’s? Epstein bragged about being a Rothschild asset. The Rockefellers have long been associated with the Rothschilds so they could be an allied famiglia assisting their asset in NYC. Roths seem to be top family of the globalist mafia. They’ve been in the game about the longest and control all sorts of organizations including the Vatican (which explains the whole racket from there) plus numerous “Protestants” who ostensibly oppose the papacy. Clown-World might as well be called Rothschild-Welt.

    • No. Because his puppetmistress Miriam Adelson is one of those who privatizes her profits while socializing her costs. Trump gets credit for stopping the flow – for now. He’s largely squandered everything else. Numerous EOs and attempts to defund the left have been shut down by a totally out-of-order gang of kritarchs, several of whom were appointed by Trump himself and nearly all of whom were seated with Senate votes from R-jersey clowns. The Minnesota state government under Walz is actively assisting Transtifa – an officially designated domestic-terrorist operation and Tump just cucked on them big time. Rounding up some low-level illegals while the gaslight media (which should also be destroyed) covers for Transtifa et al is stupid and (as we’ve seen) counterproductive – so much so that it seems there are lots of moles in DHS working for the enemy.

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