Noem says "night and day difference" at U.S.-Mexico border

Noem describes Trump's effect connected borderline

Noem says borderline agents experiencing "night and time difference" since Trump took office 00:17

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended the Trump administration's crackdown connected undocumented immigrants Monday amid a important driblet successful amerciable crossings astatine the U.S.-Mexico border. 

"If you speech to each of these agents that person been down present for years, they accidental it's nighttime and time quality from wherever we were a twelvemonth ago, that they were overwhelmed with illegals and radical that were turning themselves successful due to the fact that they knew that they would beryllium released into the United States undocumented with nary consequences," Noem told CBS News successful an interrogation astatine the U.S.-Mexico border. 

Customs and Border Protection said amerciable borderline crossings successful March fell to the lowest level ever recorded, with conscionable nether 7,200 apprehensions. According to the agency, it was a 95% alteration from a twelvemonth earlier. 

It besides marked a alteration from February, successful which the fig of amerciable migrant crossings deed a 25-year low. About 8,300 migrants were apprehended successful February. 

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Watch much of Tony Dokoupil's interrogation with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem connected Tuesday connected "CBS Mornings." 

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