“On the Holmes Front” with Frank Holmes
President Donald Trump made U.S. border security his most important promise—but it’s paying off in ways you may never have imagined. Experts say, contrary to the cable news talking heads, many Americans have more money in their pocket today because of Trump’s tough immigration policies.
The reason why is simple: ”common sense,” as the president likes to say. But it’s something that needs to be explained to the political class.
Illegal aliens really were taking Americans’ jobs, and when they get deported, they can’t any more.
Simple! Let’s review the record.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt bragged recently that “President Trump’s America First Economic Agenda has created a BOOMING economy,” where “more than 139,000 good jobs were added to the private sector in May, all accounted for by American-born workers.”
Almost all of the job gains in the second Trump administration have come from the private sector. To be specific, the percentage of free market created by the Trump administration is purer than Ivory soap: 99.8 percent—a huge change from the financially rotten Biden years, which propped up the shaky economy with the non-stop hiring of more and more government bureaucrats.
That’s not all. Not only are Americans getting more jobs; they’re earning more money.
Hourly wages—the kind real workers make at factories and convenience stores—rose by two percent in the first five months of the Trump administration. That’s a phenomenal growth rate, which, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, means real wages rose at a faster rate than at any time in the last 60 years!
“The president is succeeding in creating hundreds of thousands of jobs since he came into office — more than half a million jobs since he came into office — and they’re all going to native-born Americans,” said Council of Economic Advisers Chair Steve Miran.
Council of Economic Advisers Chairman @SteveMiran reacts to yet another jobs report that exceeded expectations: "The President is succeeding in creating hundreds of thousands of jobs since he came into office… and they're all going to native-born Americans." pic.twitter.com/UEs6RnhVEM
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 6, 2025
That last part is crucial. Under the Biden-Harris administration, almost 100 percent of job growth went to immigrants, legal or illegal, not U.S. citizens.
The official statistics say Joe Biden admitted at least 10 million illegal aliens to the U.S. over four years—but experts say that number isn’t even close.il
As The Horn reported exclusively, J.J. Carrell, retired Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge of the U.S. Border Patrol, testified to Congress last November that the Biden administration and its cronies opened America up for an unprecedented “invasion of 30,000,000 illegal aliens entering America in four years.”
During the last four years of the Democratic Deep State administration, so many illegal immigrants entered the U.S. that immigrants outnumbered the birth of American children.
American Children are no longer the primary source of new residents within the country.
More arrived in the Past Year than the number of kids born to mothers in America.
And this doesn't include those who avoided detection. pic.twitter.com/I0dZtoQdMZ
— ~~datahazard~~ (@fentasyl) July 29, 2024
The number of people on American streets who were born in another country hit an all-time high—in two ways.
As a percentage, a whopping one in eight Americans, 15.8 percent, were born in a foreign nation. And the overall number totaled 53.3 million.
Foreign criminal syndicates like Tren de Aragua took control of whole apartment buildings in the suburbs of Denver.
Illegal aliens thought they owned this country under the Democrats—and in many ways they did.
Then the 2024 election happened, and President Donald Trump came back into office.
Today President Trump is taking action for Americans: He ignored Democrats’ lawlessness and the well-funded riots in the streets to crank up mass deportations of criminal aliens.
He canceled the Social Security numbers of illegal aliens who had illegally voted in American elections. The Department of Government Efficiency, or “DOGE,” found up to 2.1 million fraudulent numbers registered to in the Social Security database, according to Elon Musk.
Thanks to his swift action, the illegal immigrants are listening, getting the message, and going back home.
The overall number of illegal aliens in the United States has fallen by one million in the first six months of the Trump administration...and Americans are reaping the benefits in every way imaginable.
“Enforce immigration laws and wages for hourly workers go up — who’da thunk it?” said immigration expert Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies.
Enforce immigration laws and wages for hourly workers go up — who'da thunk it? https://t.co/jlMnJ6KLX4
— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) June 17, 2025
Krikorian knows what everyone in America knows but, under a succession of Uniparty presidents who sold out to Big Business, hasn’t been allowed to say: There was never an American worker shortage. Corporations just didn’t want to pay American wages.
“Mysteriously, people in Kentucky, West Virginia & other low immigrant areas want jobs other Americans won’t do. Isn’t it amazing?” asked Numbers USA immigration expert Jim Robb. “It’s not that Americans won’t do the jobs, they’ve been displaced” by illegals.
But replacing American workers with lower-paid foreigners is bad for everyone involved—everyone, that is, except the rich factory owners who reap enormous profits off pricing U.S. citizens out of their own labor market (and who often happen to be campaign megadonors to both parties).
“It’s godless to build an economy on jobs so poorly paid and unsafe that only desperate foreigners will do them,” said Batya Ungar-Sargon. “Mass deportations are the answer to an economic and moral emergency.”
Jim Robb DEBUNKS myth that we need illegal aliens to do jobs Americans won’t do:
“Mysteriously, people in Kentucky, West Virginia & other low immigrant areas want jobs other Americans won't do. Isn’t it amazing? It’s not that Americans won't do the jobs, they’ve been displaced.” pic.twitter.com/dWrnC5HqdG
— NumbersUSA (@NumbersUSA) June 26, 2025
When someone tells you there are jobs Americans won't do, your job is to add "…for those wages." It's godless to build an economy on jobs so poorly paid and unsafe that only desperate foreigners will do them. Mass deportations are the answer to an economic and moral emergency. https://t.co/7HFoTUuRIE
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) June 23, 2025
The smart money has already noticed its cheap labor class is saying “Adios!” and has returned to hiring Americans again.
Guess what that plant’s unheard of idea to attract American workers is? Offering Americans higher pay, a predictable schedule, and better workplace safety regulations.
WSJ reports that a Nebraska woman named Angela Jones felt real security for the first time after getting hired at the plant—at $24.50 an hour and with health insurance, something she hadn’t had in 20 years.
More Americans deserve that dignity and, thanks to the Trump administration, more are going to get it.