President Donald Trump said on July 2 that the previous month’s border statistics were the lowest in the nation’s history, with Border Patrol reporting zero releases of illegal immigrants into the United States and just over 6,000 arrests at the Southwest border.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said Customs and Border Patrol reported only 25,243 nationwide encounters for all of June, with zero releases of illegal immigrants into the United States.
“America’s Borders are Safe and Secure, and the entire World knows it,” Trump wrote.
The president’s border czar, Tom Homan, said the total number of Southwest Border Patrol encounters for June was 6,070….