Trump's DHS Says Criminals Are Not Welcome Here

Broad & Liberty ran my piece on President Trump’s DHS actions. You can read the piece via the below link or the below text:  

Paul Davis: Trump’s DHS says criminals are not welcome in the United States

No one, despite their view of President Trump, can call him “Sleepy Don,” considering how much he has done in his first month in office.

Although I was not an early supporter of Donald Trump, I’ve come to agree with most of his policies, especially those policies that deal with crime and terrorism.

But I take issue with Trump’s reliance on executive orders. Like President Biden, President Trump has issued numerous executive orders rather than push for Congressional legislation. The advantage of an executive order is that it is fast. The disadvantage is the very next president can write executive orders that cancel out the previous president’s executive orders, much like President Trump is now doing to former President Biden’s executive orders. 

Overturning congressional legislation is a much harder task, so I wish President Trump would send legislation to the Congress, especially since his party controls both houses of Congress.

But having said that, one can appreciate that President Trump is doing much of what he promised to do in the election.

As Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem noted, “President Trump said from the start: criminal illegals have no place in our homeland. He is keeping his promise.”

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a “Snapshot of Trump’s First Month: Making America Safe Again” on February 20, 2025.

The DHS statement read, “In a single month, President Trump and Secretary Noem have made massive strides to address the crisis at the southern border and remove violent criminal aliens from American communities. This is just the beginning of the golden age of America. 

PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT:   

·     On day one, President Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border and restarted construction of the border wall.   

 

·     President Trump instantly reinstated “Remain in Mexico” and ended catch and release.   

 

·     The Trump administration has empowered our brave men and women in ICE, Border Patrol, and Coast Guard to use common sense to do their jobs effectively.   

 

·     DHS has repealed Biden Era rules that allowed criminal aliens to hide from law enforcement in places like schools and churches to avoid arrest.    

 

·     DHS returned to using the term “illegal alien” to use statutory language and stop political correctness from hindering law enforcement.   

 

·     ICE arrests of criminal aliens have doubled and arrests of fugitives at large has tripled.   

 

·     Daily border encounters have plunged 93% since President Trump took office.  

 

·     To fulfill President Trump’s promise to carry out mass deportations, the administration is detaining illegal aliens, including violent criminals, at Guantanamo Bay.    

 

·     President Trump designated international cartels and other criminal gangs, such as MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.    

 

·     President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act which mandates the federal detention of illegal immigrants who are accused of theft, burglary, assaulting a law enforcement officer, and any crime that causes death or serious bodily injury.    

 

·     President Trump stopped the broad abuse of humanitarian parole and returned the program to a case-by-case basis.  

 

·     Secretary Noem ended the previous administration’s extension of Venezuelan Temporary Protected Status.   

 

·     DHS froze all grants to non-profit organizations that facilitate illegal immigration.   

 

·     DHS deputized the Texas National Guard, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Marshals, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, members of the State Department and the IRS to help with immigration operations.   

 

·     Secretary Noem clawed back $80 million that FEMA deep state activists unilaterally gave to put illegal aliens up in luxury New York City hotels. 

Bottom Line: Since President Trump was inaugurated, he’s made it clear there is a new sheriff in town. The President and Secretary Noem will continue fighting every day to secure our borders and keep American communities safe.”  

DHS announced earlier on February 17, 2025, that DHS has begun a nationwide and international ad campaign that warns illegal aliens to self-deport. 

“Today, Secretary Kristi Noem announced a nationwide and international multimillion-dollar ad campaign warning illegal aliens to leave our country now or face deportation with the inability to return to the United States. The international ads warn criminal illegal aliens not to come to America and break its laws or they will be hunted down and deported.  

This series of ads will run on radio, broadcast, and digital, in multiple countries and regions in various dialects. Ads will be hyper-targeted, including through social media, text message and digital to reach illegal immigrants in the interior of the United States, as well as internationally. 

“Thank you, President Donald J. Trump, for securing our border and putting America first. President Trump has a clear message: if you are here illegally, we will find you and deport you. You will never return. But if you leave now, you may have an opportunity to return and enjoy our freedom and live the American Dream,” said Secretary Kristi Noem. “If you are a criminal alien considering entering America illegally: Don’t even think about it.  If you come here and break our laws, we will hunt you down. Criminals are not welcome in the United States.”  

As I wrote in a previous piece here, DHS in Philadelphia has caught and deported some very bad guys. They have committed murder, rape and child abuse. These illegal migrant criminals have committed heinous crimes in their own countries and then slivered into America and committed heinous crimes here as well.

One may agree or disagree with President Trump’s border policies, but as for me, I’m thankful that Trump’s DHS is rounding up the illegal immigrant criminals.

Paul Davis, a Philadelphia writer and frequent contributor to Broad + Liberty, also contributes to Counterterrorism magazine and writes the “On Crime” column for the Washington Times. He can be reached at pauldavisoncrime.com.