Carl Higbie said illegal immigration apprehensions at the southern border have dropped to what he described as a “statistical zero,” crediting President Donald Trump with accomplishing what critics and policy experts long said could not be done.
Speaking about border enforcement over the past eight months, Higbie cited a combination of self-deportations and ICE removals as evidence that illegal crossings have effectively collapsed.
“This is the chart for illegal immigration and the apprehensions at the southern border in for eight months. For eight months, it’s literally been a statistical zero with 1.9 million self deportations, 600,000 ICE deportations,” Higbie said.
Higbie said the reduction defied repeated claims that such outcomes were impossible, arguing that immigration enforcement under Trump has produced measurable results.
“But folks, I don’t think you can a statistical zero on immigration, we were told it could never be done,” he said.
According to Higbie, the success of Trump’s border policies explains continued Democratic opposition to ICE and immigration enforcement.
“And you want to know why they freak out about this, not not only you know because immigrants and things like that, that’s the Democrats new voter base, but this is the one issue that Donald Trump has had the most success. Like it is undisputed,” Higbie said.
He added that Democrats are unwilling to acknowledge what he described as Trump’s most decisive policy victory.
“That’s why Democrats are fighting ICE because they cannot give him his one undisputed win,” Higbie said.
Higbie also pointed to the number of legal challenges Trump has faced, arguing that the administration achieved its results despite extensive court opposition.
“What’s even more impressive is that he’s done all this in the face of lawfare and judicial activism,” Higbie said.
He said Trump encountered hundreds of legal actions within a single year.
“Donald Trump has 500 in one year, 559 challenges and judicial interventions to his actions, and yet he still accomplished all that,” Higbie said.
Higbie contrasted those figures with the number of injunctions issued during the Biden-Harris administration.
“24 of those cases were heard by the Supreme Court, which Trump won, more than 80% of,” Higbie said.
“Compare that to only 28 injunctions under Biden in four years.”
He described the situation as unprecedented.
“It’s like one man fighting the entire system, and he’s winning. He has proved everyone wrong at every level in a year,” Higbie said.
Higbie went on to cite additional accomplishments he attributed to Trump beyond immigration enforcement.
“I didn’t even go into negotiating major drug reduction, price reductions, dismantling or defunding DEI programs, gender policies and men and women’s sports and all that weird stuff,” he said.
He also listed foreign policy actions he said occurred during Trump’s leadership.
“He got NATO to pay up. He snatched a Venezuelan dictator Maduro. He bombed the Iranian nuclear facility,” Higbie said.
Higbie added that multiple global conflicts have ended.
“What are we up to? Like, eight wars ended right now, soon to be nine, and a bunch of other common sense, just like normal accomplishments,” he said.
Turning to political commentary following the 2016 election, Higbie criticized analysts and consultants who, he said, consistently misjudge public sentiment.
“Now I would just like to relive something, though that still applies, and I have this framed in my office. Okay, this headline after the election in 2016 all the experts, they were all wrong. They’re always wrong,” Higbie said.
He said the outcome was correctly anticipated by ordinary Americans rather than political elites.
“It was all normal people like you and I who worked to build this country, the people who raise families and defend this nation, we called this right from day one,” Higbie said.
Higbie concluded by calling for a shift in how elected officials and consultants engage with voters.
“So perhaps some of these white shoe consultants should stop lecturing us and maybe start listening to us,” he said.
“And more importantly, Congress should start doing what they said they were going to do.”
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