VP Vance delivers remarks from the SECURE southern border: “As POTUS Trump said last night… it turns out we didn’t need new laws. We didn’t need fancy legislation. We just needed a new President of the United States — and thank God that’s exactly what we have.”
The good news is, as President Trump said last night at the State of the Union, it turns out we didn’t need new laws, we didn’t need fancy legislation, we just needed a new President of the United States. And thank God that’s exactly what we have. And I will say that the most heartening message that I take away from my visit here at the Texas border is the number of border patrol agents who have come up to me and said, “Thank you,” or said, “Because of this, we’ve cut the number of border crossings from 1,500 a day to 30 a day,” or the people who have come up and said, “We’ve seen a reduction in 85% of the number of people who are dying at the American southern border.” And every single day that we continue to keep this border safe, that means less migrant crime, that means less fentanyl coming into our communities. That means more safety and security for the people of the United States of America.
And of course, we know the border problem, the border crisis under Biden’s administration, was a national crisis, but it acutely affected the communities right here. And I’ve already heard heartbreaking stories of people who are still picking up the pieces, local mayors who are still dealing with the budgetary consequences of what the Joe Biden administration allowed to happen at the American southern border. And that too is something that President Trump is going to help address, help fix, and help solve.
I was talking with Paul Perez earlier. The drone technology that the cartels are using requires unfortunately a military response and military support. So it was important for Secretary Hegseth to see what’s going on because we know that the millions and millions of people who were led in over the last four years, many of them are connected to foreign terrorists. It’s important for our leader of national intelligence to get a sense of what’s here on the ground. So before we take questions from the press, and all of us are willing to take questions, I want to give Secretary Hegseth and then Director Gabbard an opportunity to say a few words themselves. Mr. Secretary.
DNI Gabbard — speaking on the border in Eagle Pass, TX — says President Trump’s designation of cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations is critical as we see their tactics “reflect some of the tactics that we’ve seen used by Islamist terrorists” overseas.
As Director of National Intelligence, there are a number of areas where we are focused. The president talked about in his speech, over 21 million people have come across our borders illegally under Joe Biden’s administration. There are many of them that we don’t know who they are. They have not been vetted, we don’t know where they are. I’ll give you one quick example of one of the problems that we are getting after.
From Central Asia there were over 4,000 people who came across our borders using an ISIS-affiliated network. Our National Counterterrorism Center went through and identified those individuals. There were hundreds of them who were either known terrorists or associated with known terrorists. That information was provided to the Biden administration. You may remember in some of the news, a little over 100 of those people were arrested in 2024. Of those who were arrested, only eight were either deported or remained in custody. Only eight. The rest of them were released back into our country. Where are they? What are they doing? What may they be plotting? This is just the beginning. There are many, many areas that we need to stay very focused on working with Department of Homeland Security, working with the FBI to ensure that we’re keeping the American people safe.
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VP on border: no need new laws; Gabbard: Biden 100 arrested, only 8 deported, rest released back into our country