What a difference a president makes! Only a year ago, befuddled old Joe Biden was whining about his inability to do anything about our wide-open borders without some mysterious, undefined action by Congress; but then, Joe Biden also suffered from an inability to navigate his way out of the president’s private Oval Office toilet without a map, a compass, and Secret Service assistance. 

Enter Donald Trump, and all that changed overnight. Now, in 2025, the United States may well be on track to see the first year of negative net migration in half a century. CNN’s Harry Enten has the numbers.

“We may be dealing with NEGATIVE NET MIGRATION to the United States in 2025. That would be the first time there is negative net migration in this country in at least 50 years — we’re talking about down from 2.8 million in 2024.”

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Mr. Enten says:

How about net migration into the United States? Get this: It’s down. It’s going to be down at least 60 percent. We may be dealing with, get this, negative net migration to the United States in 2025, that will be the first time there is negative net migration in this country in at least 50 years. We’re talking about down from 2.8 million in 2024. So, Donald Trump ran, has always run, on tariffs, and he’s run on a hawkish line on immigration. And on both of those issues, we are seeing record-high tariff rates, for this century going all the way back, well back into the early part of the 20th century, and when it comes to immigration, net migration, we’re seeing record-low levels, way down from where we were during the Biden administration. We are potentially looking at negative net migration for the first time in at least 50 years. 

This is, as someone once famously said, a big freaking deal. The southern border is effectively closed. ICE is rounding up the worst of the worst, rotating them through the Alligator Alcatraz and other out-processing stations, and sending them back to where they belong. That’s what President Trump campaigned on throughout the 2024 election season, and now he’s delivering.