DHS: 8% of Nicaragua’s population illegally entered US under Biden

The Division of Homeland Safety revealed giant percentages of international nations whose whole nationwide inhabitants entered the US illegally, noting that almost all of crossings occurred between February 2021 and January 2025.

The nations the place essentially the most U.S. residents dwell are Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti and Honduras, in keeping with U.S. Customs and Border Safety (CBP) knowledge.

“In the course of the Biden period, 8% of Nicaragua’s ENTIRE inhabitants entered the US illegally,” DHS wrote to

The overall variety of unlawful migrants from totally different nations is within the hundreds of thousands, and DHS blasted the Biden administration for turning “America right into a dumping floor for third world criminals.”

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Hundreds of immigrants, most carrying thermal blankets, await processing at a U.S. Border Patrol transit heart on Dec. 19, 2023, in Eagle Go, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Photographs)

Pointing the division’s finger at Biden has been a central theme in Secretary Kristi Noem and DHS’s place, and the Trump administration is continuous deportation efforts amid criticism from Democrats in Washington and throughout the nation.

Throughout an interview alongside the southern border in Eagle Go, Texas, earlier this month, Noem praised the efforts which have led to what the White Home mentioned is the “most safe border within the historical past of this nation.”

“In only a yr, we went from one of these scenario beneath the earlier administration to security,” Noem informed Fox Information Digital throughout an unique interview. ‘Hundreds of individuals died [at the border] as a result of Joe Biden and the Democrats determined to chop the fence and permit an invasion that labored with the cartels to herald unprecedented drug and human trafficking and intercourse trafficking, abusing youngsters.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and different Trump administration officers blamed former President Joe Biden for the rise in unlawful border crossings, saying border safety has improved considerably since then. (Ash Ponders/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)

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“This was stopped instantly when President Trump got here in,” Noem added.

Noem and her division have confronted intense scrutiny from Democrats and a few Republicans over immigration enforcement techniques following the deadly shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota. Trump campaigned on a promise to deport the hundreds of thousands of unlawful migrants who entered beneath Biden, and Noem claimed that Democrats now essential of enforcement actions had been ignoring the actual humanitarian considerations raised by the border disaster beneath the final administration.

“These Democrats who speak each day about detention facilities, who speak about our enforcement operations in the US, the place had been they when this disaster was happening?” Noem requested. “Right here on this border, 100 instances extra individuals died due to what they did, and so they by no means mentioned a phrase.”

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Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. and Senate Democrats aren’t budging from their checklist of DHS calls for because the partial authorities shutdown continues. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)

In Washington, the partial authorities shutdown over DHS funding continues, with Democrats demanding new insurance policies for ICE operations and Noem and her division remaining dedicated to deporting unlawful migrants.

About 90% of DHS staff are thought-about important and should work with out pay. ICE is already nearly solely funded by means of earlier provisions within the One Huge Lovely Invoice Act and different laws.

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Border Safety Officer Tom Homan mentioned throughout an interview with CNN that the closure can have “no influence” on immigration enforcement operations presently happening within the US.

“[Democrats] have chosen to behave towards the American individuals for political causes, and now now we have FEMA staff, the women and men of the US Coast Guard, [the] TSA women and men who hold our airports shifting and who will work with out pay for no good purpose aside from the Democrats need to decide a combat with Donald Trump,” White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned throughout a press convention on Wednesday.

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