RIGHT SPEAK: Deporting Illegal Aliens Isn’t Complicated. Don’t Let Democrats Complicate It; Border Crossings Hit 55-Year Low — After Democrats Said Reform was the Only Fix

Deporting Illegal Aliens Isn’t Complicated. Don’t Let Democrats Complicate It:

It’s useful, if unserious, for congressional Democrat leaders this week to have issued a list of demands in exchange for votes to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration law enforcement. The administration should see it as a reminder that the default position of Democrats is “pretend to support deporting illegal aliens while overcomplicating the process so as to render it impossible.”

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both of New York, published the demands in an open letter on Wednesday, detailing 10 things they say are needed to strike a deal on more DHS funding. “Federal immigration agents cannot continue to cause chaos in our cities,” the letter said, “while using taxpayer money that should be used to make life more affordable for working families.”

That line right there alone exposes Democrats as dishonest. They have no interest in “working families,” as literally every policy they champion, including open borders, is catastrophic for all of them. In any event, they went on to write that it was “critical” to “come together” for the purpose of agreeing on “common sense reforms” to ICE before Democrats would consent to more funding.

Admittedly, among the 10 proposals, a couple aren’t unreasonable, even if Democrats would surely poison-pill whatever legislation attempted to include them. The demands include body camera requirements, for example, which the administration has already initiated. But the bulk of them are explicitly intended to prevent as many illegal alien deportations as possible, starting with the first one, which insists that ICE agents “require verification that a person is not a U.S. citizen before holding them in immigration detention.” --->READ MORE HERE

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Border crossings hit 55-year low — after Democrats said reform was the only fix:

Trump-era enforcement drives encounters down to 237,538 in 2025, lowest since Nixon in 1970

Many Democrats long claimed the only way to solve the border crisis was for Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform, but a Trump-era enforcement posture in the absence of new legislation has led to a 55-year low in crossings.

Data from the Border Patrol cited by Pew Research this week found there were 237,538 migrant encounters at the Mexican border in 2025; the lowest number since Richard Nixon was president — 201,780 were encountered in 1970.

Those figures are a drop from more than 2 million in 2022 and 2023, which neared only the 1986 figure of 1.6 million and the 2024 figure of 1.5 million. President John F. Kennedy had the best luck with border security, as less than 21,000 crossed in any of his three years in office before his assassination.

Several Democrats were asked about the latest figures and the stark change in absence of legislation they've said would be the cure:

BARACK OBAMA

Former President Barack Obama previously called the border crisis during his deputy’s term as president "a painful reminder that we don’t have this right yet," according to ABC News.

At the time in 2021, Obama said that as a "nation-state, we have to have borders," and many conservatives have pointed to Obama’s relative success with deportations and the awarding of a medal to then-future Border Czar Tom Homan as an example of when Democrats sought a strong immigration enforcement posture.

But, as Obama told ABC News at the time, the crisis was the reason he proposed comprehensive immigration reform for Congress to pass.

Fox News Digital reached out to Obama’s office for comment on the border numbers in the absence of such a law.

SEN. CHARLES SCHUMER, D-N.Y.

In September 2024, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said he would always fight for DREAMers and comprehensive immigration reform.

"Comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship has long been a priority of mine. It is one of the most important things this Congress can do," he said in 2021.