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Kristi Noem: “While the daily average of apprehensions in the Biden years…”

Featuring: Kristi Noem, Republican | Secretary of Homeland Security, Former Governor of South Dakota | National

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Kristi Noem announces major border wall update

Published | Video Starts at 11:42

Overall, Customs and Border Protection has recorded the lowest number of encounters in the agency. Agency's history in 2025. Daily encounters have fallen by 95% over the last year. While the daily average of apprehensions in the Biden years was over 5,100 per day, in the last year, it was less than 250. In addition to keeping the illegal aliens out, we're also protecting the American people from the deadly drugs that are coming in. And just in 2025, CBP seized over 600,000 pounds of illicit drugs. (11:42–11:51)

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Asserts that daily apprehensions averaged over 5,100 during Biden's term, now reduced to less than 250.

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