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National Border Patrol Council president Paul Perez told Fox News that the longstanding practice of “catch-and-release” at the southern border has been stopped and that agents are finally being empowered to do their jobs. Perez praised the Trump administration’s border policies as decisive and effective at reversing the chaos that followed lax enforcement. Conservatives who warned for years that open-border permissiveness would bring crime and disorder feel vindicated by this vindication of law and order.
Perez didn’t mince words about the practical changes he has seen — from resuming border wall construction to a renewed emphasis on deportation and enforcement — and he credited those Trump policies with bringing immediate, tangible results. When federal courts and policy confusion tried to hobble deportation flights, rank-and-file officers still saw the difference that firm leadership made in operational capability. It’s time to stop pretending that soft rhetoric secures a border; only hard policy and follow-through protect American communities.
Let’s be blunt: the Biden years proved what happens when ideology replaces competence at Homeland Security, and Perez warned that the “status quo” of open-door laxity would end once serious leadership returned. Border communities suffered while officials downplayed the crisis, and patrol agents repeatedly told leaders what needed fixing only to be ignored. Americans who love their country should be furious that it took this long for common-sense enforcement to be restored and must insist it never happens again.
Perez also spoke plainly about public safety, noting that deporting convicted gang members to face justice in their home countries is exactly where they belong, not roaming American streets. This is the kind of non-negotiable position that defends victims and supports the brave men and women of law enforcement doing a dangerous job every day. If politicians want safer neighborhoods, they should stop making excuses and start backing enforceable, legal removals of criminal aliens.
The lesson is simple for hardworking Americans: border security is not a partisan abstraction, it’s a matter of national survival and public safety, and leaders who act win. Perez’s praise of firm, immediate action should be a wake-up call to voters and lawmakers alike to fund, empower, and defend border officers and to keep policies that deter unlawful entry. Patriots who put country before convenience must keep the pressure on until our borders are secure and our laws respected.
