Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, told Newsmax on Wednesday that "it is like night and day" at the U.S.-Mexico border because of President Donald Trump's immigration policies and the reversal of the previous administration's policies.
Babin, in an interview with "Wake Up America," praised Trump's border policies, noting that the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection said morale at the border is "the highest he's ever seen" during a meeting with legislators this week.
"We actually had one of our Border Security Caucus meetings just yesterday, and we had CBP chief Mike Banks, who is the now CBP chief but was the former Texas border czar appointed by Governor [Greg] Abbott, and he was telling us that it is like night and day" at the southern border, Babin said.
He added, "It's incredible. I mean, in a week over 7,000 deportations, it is down dramatically. I asked him a question. I said, 'How is the morale at the Border Patrol now?' He said it's the highest he's ever seen it."
Banks said in an interview last week that illegal border crossings have dropped 90% since Trump entered office last month. The New York Times reported in early January, just before Trump's inauguration, that border crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border had decreased to the lowest level since summer 2020, with January on track to have even fewer crossings than in recent months.
Babin added that "at the same time, we're seeing record numbers of people wanting to get into our U.S. military. Now all we had to do was to get rid of the Biden administration's woke policies. The insanity that they were inflicting upon the United States over the last four years, and dramatic things are happening. Thank God for President Trump."
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Theodore Bunker, a Newsmax writer, has more than a decade covering news, media, and politics.
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