Fact-Checking Trump's Immigration Claims at the UN

Trump's Immigration Claims Fact-Checked

• 🎯 President Trump claimed a "colossal invasion" has been repelled at the southern border and that zero illegal aliens have been admitted for four months.
• 📈 While illegal crossings are at their lowest level since the 1960s, the claim of "zero" admissions is nuanced.
• 🧐 Customs and Border Protection has not released migrants into the US for the past four months, but over 6,000 people were arrested by Border Patrol in August after crossing illegally.

Deportation Strategy and International Agreements

• ✈️ President Trump alluded to agreements with over a dozen countries to accept deportees from the US.
• 🌍 These diplomatic efforts have involved countries in Africa, Europe, and Asia, including brokered agreements with El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Kosovo, South Sudan, Rwanda, and Uganda.
• 💰 The specifics of what these countries receive in return are largely secretive, though El Salvador received US funds to house Venezuelan migrants, and South Sudan accepted non-Sudanese immigrants after facing potential US visa sanctions.
• 🔍 The US appears to use significant political and economic leverage to secure these deportation agreements.