From Chaos to Crickets: Once-Flooded Eagle Pass Border Now Silent
By Ward ClarkTo all the leftist propagandists going on and on about the inhumanity of actually enforcing our immigration laws and securing our national borders, I can only say this: You're losing, and it's working. Even CBS, a bastion of the legacy media, is covering the Trump administration's success in this. On Tuesday, CBS News' Camilo Montoya-Galvez went to a stretch of the border near Eagle Pass, Texas, that during the Biden years was flooded with illegal immigrants. Now? Crickets rule.
Funny how changing our US President immediately produces safe borders and communities. We must never go back to such chaos with democrats.
— Bret Weingart (@kbweingart) April 22, 2026
Mr. Montoya-Galvez informs us:
This is the U.S.-Mexico border near Eagle Pass, Texas. You can see Mexico just a few yards away across the Rio Grande. And this is what it looked like in December of 2023 under the Biden administration. (Switches to archived footage) Behind me is a makeshift staging ground where hundreds of migrants from Latin America have been sleeping and waiting to be processed by overtaxed Border Patrol agents here at Eagle Pass, Texas. (Switches to current report) At that time, we saw hundreds of people, including families with young children and babies, trying to cross into the U.S. illegally in large numbers. Some of them had to get past the Rio Grande, get past the razor wire; in fact, some of them, we saw ourselves, cut themselves in the process of entering the country illegally. But during this entire trip, we have not seen a single migrant. And the fire chief of Eagle Pass told us that during the Biden administration, at the peak of the border crisis, his team was responding to about three reports of migrants drowning every single day. Now they're responding to one drowning every three months. So, the situation here has changed dramatically.
And all it took was a new president.
Now, we can take exception with some of Mr. Montoya-Galvez's terminology, most especially his repeated use of the term "migrant." These aren't migrants; they are illegal aliens, the moment they set foot in the United States. But in this case, the reporter is very likely just adhering to his employer's editorial requirements. And we have to acknowledge the horrendously poor judgment of people trying to bring children and infants along on this fraught river crossing.
Still, though, what a remarkable difference! From hundreds of illegal border-crossers to none.
There are still problems. Earlier this month, again near Eagle Pass, the Border Patrol nabbed smugglers trying to bring $2.8 million in narcotics through the Eagle Pass entry point.
“These two significant hard narcotics seizures with a combined street value of more than $2.8 million reflect the continued vigilance and alertness our CBP officers put forth on a daily basis,” said Port Director Pete Beattie, Eagle Passport of Entry. “These narcotics will not enter U.S. streets thanks to their dedication to CBP’s border security mission.”
Customs & Border Patrol (CBP) is, of course, able to now devote more resources to this kind of work, since they aren't being pulled away to tend to wave after wave of people flooding into the country illegally, and a president sitting in Washington and directing CBP to let them in.
What an amazing change in under two years. What a change. What a difference a president can make.
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