Since Donald Trump took office on January 20, he has set to work with Border Czar Tom Homan and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to secure the border. Border Patrol agents and immigration officers were officially given the green light to carry out the jobs they were originally hired to do and the mission voters want them to carry out.

The results of their efforts are already alleviating the stress communities have faced around the country through the invasion of illegal immigrants. According to the New York Post, “The new US Border Patrol chief said the number of illegal migrants stopped trying to cross the besieged southern border has dropped an astonishing 90% since January 21.”

Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and other Biden administration officials repeatedly lied, insisting that our southern border was under control and that the only thing keeping the border from being fully secure was Republican intransigence on their lousy border bill.

Border Chief Michael Banks now tells the truth: “US Border Patrol knows how to get the job done, we know how to secure the border. All we needed was a president that was going to empower us — a strong leader like President Trump — and a secretary like [DHS] Secretary [Kristi] Noem that knows exactly what we need to do to secure the border.”

They didn’t need more funding or personnel, as the Democrats claimed was necessary, and the proof of this has been revealed in the outcomes of their work thus far. They have been unburdened by the last administration, which has allowed them to be swift, effective, and organized in their operations.

As a result, Americans are also starting to feel safer.

Daily news reports exposed just how bad the situation had gotten, with some of the world’s most hardened criminals living as next-door neighbors to innocent people. Team Trump is targeting criminals first.

In the middle district of Tennessee, for example, several members of the Tren de Aragua gang were pulled from the community and have been indicted for sex trafficking. In Texas and North Carolina, other TDA gang members were arrested for what investigators called a “multi-state sex trafficking ring that threatened and abused victims.”

Still, the work of deporting illegal immigrants and ridding our streets of human traffickers has not come without its challenges.

News circulating on X suggests that there are people with access to internal documents who had leaked information to a known group of illegal immigrants in Denver, Colorado, about ICE raids that were planned for their area. While agents aimed to detain at least 200 people in this specific operation, they ended up nabbing only 30 individuals.

Homan has since made a public statement indicating his belief that the ICE raid leaks came from the FBI. Noem committed to “prosecute these crooked deep state agents to the fullest extent of the law.”

Also opposing the work that our immigration law enforcement is doing is Pope Francis. The Argentine Jesuit openly criticized Trump’s mass deportation orders, specifically targeting JD Vance after the vice president cited the “ordo amoris” to highlight the need for Christians to love in an appropriately ordered way, not the backwards way that the Democrats demonstrate in their prioritizing of everyone else above the United States.

In a long letter responding to Vance, Pope Francis offered his interpretation of what this phrase means, particularly in relation to the immigration crisis that the Trump administration is trying to address: “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the ‘Good Samaritan,’ that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.”

The sentiment is nice when considering housing a single, struggling man, as the Good Samaritan does. However, it’s a stretch to expect even the best of Christians to open their arms “without exception” to gang members carrying out the trafficking of women and children in their neighborhood.

The pope’s words also reached Tom Homan, a devout Catholic who had his own advice for the global church leader: “He ought to concentrate on his work and leave border enforcement to us.”

As for the rest of America, the consensus is that of relief and hope for the future, as we see the restoration of law and order and a country with borders again.