Trump Deserves Nobel Peace Prize For Securing America’s Border

The left-leaning Nobel Committee last week passed over the guy who just brought an end to the war in Gaza and peace to the Middle East. That the committee snubbed President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize should come as a surprise to no one. 

The same politically biased group that hastily gave Democrat President Barack Obama the prize just for not being George W. Bush brushed aside a flood of appeals for Trump. Yes, the deadline for Peace Prize nominations is Jan. 31, just days after Trump began his second term, but many of the appeals asked the committee to make an exception in the case of a U.S. president who in his first nine months in office has led or helped broker peace deals around the world. On Monday, Trump was hailed as a hero in Israel, Gaza, and by political leaders around the world for leading the ceasefire of the bloody two-year war between Israel and terrorist group Hamas. 

Even the former secretary of the Nobel Committee has said he was disappointed in the committee’s decision to award the 2009 peace prize to Obama, who had been in office just 11 days when he was nominated. 

“No Nobel Peace Prize ever elicited more attention than the 2009 prize to Barack Obama,” Geir Lundestad wrote in his 2015 memoir. Obama, Lundestad has said, didn’t live up to expectations. 

“Even many of Obama’s supporters believed that the prize was a mistake,” he added. “In that sense the committee didn’t achieve what it had hoped for.”

‘Peace Right Here at Home’

Trump, his Peace Prize nominators assert, is abundantly more deserving of the award for his myriad pursuits of peace around the world. Even a committee cloistered in its own leftist bubble should be able to recognize the president’s peace credentials during 2026 considerations. 

But Joe Abraham, whose 20-year-old daughter Katie died in January at the scene of a crash that prosecutors say was caused by a drunk illegal immigrant, will tell you that Trump deserves the award for bringing peace and security back to his own country. 

“Everyone has been talking about Nobel Peace Prizes for things done outside this country, but what about this country?” Abraham told The Federalist in an interview. 

Last week, the American Border Story submitted a formal letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee on behalf of Angel parents and families of fentanyl victims urging the Peace Prize be awarded to the president. The letter notes Trump’s leadership in taking on drug cartels, traffickers and the border crisis that have “stolen so many innocent lives — bringing peace and security to American communities.”

“While many leaders have spoken about peace in distant lands, President Trump has fought to bring peace right here at home — peace for parents who want their children to walk safely to school, peace for families who should never have to fear a poisoned pill or an impaired driver, peace for communities terrorized by cartels operating freely on our soil,” the American Border Story wrote in representing dozens of Angel parents and fentanyl families. The national initiative, according to its website, is “dedicated to exposing the human impact of America’s border crisis.”

The Angel parents make some good points. 

‘Most Secure Border in American History’

Preliminary enforcement numbers show the U.S. Customs and Border Protection closed out the 2025 fiscal year in September with the lowest apprehensions since 1970, according to the Department of Homeland Security. There were a total of 237,565 apprehensions of illegal aliens at the southwest border, marking a 55-year low, “despite the handicap of more than three months of [the Biden Administration’s] open-border chaos at the start of the fiscal year,” DHS stated last week in a press release.

The majority of the apprehensions — 72,026 — occurred on President Joe Biden’s watch between October 2024 and Jan. 2025, according to DHS. For the final nine months of the year, the Trump Administration recorded 65,539 apprehensions. 

“We have had the most secure border in American history and our end of year numbers prove it,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in the release. “Under President Trump, we have empowered and supported our law enforcement to do their job and they have delivered.” 

September marked the fifth consecutive month with zero releases into the U.S. of illegal immigrants encountered at the southwest border. 

Trump has met Biden’s manufactured immigration crisis head on, and he has secured the border. 

‘Peace and Solace’

Meanwhile, Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) has taken criminal illegal aliens off the streets, including some of the most violent offenders in the country. In the first 100 days after Trump signed executive orders on his immigration enforcement agenda, ICE arrested more than 41,000 people either known or suspected of being in the country illegally, according to the agency.  

In the first few weeks of ICE’s “Operation Midway Blitz” in sanctuary city Chicago, officers arrested more than 800 illegal aliens, including the “worst of the worst.” 

Among those apprehended, according to ICE, was Cristobal Carias Masin, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador, convicted of statutory rape, fraud, and aggravated felony, and with pending charges of assault and failure to register as a sex offender. The list also includes Stefan Cseve, a criminal illegal alien from Austria, who was previously convicted of a laundry list of violent offenses: sexual assault; aggravated criminal sexual assault; aggravated criminal sexual abuse; numerous sexual predator in a public park offenses; child sex offender loitering; in violation of the sex offender registry; and currently charged with murder, rape or sexual abuse of a minor. 

ICE launched Operation Midway Blitz in honor of Joe Abraham’s daughter, Katie, who was killed near the University of Illinois campus in the hit-and-run car wreck allegedly caused by an illegal immigrant. The operation “targets criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois seeking protection under the sanctuary policies” of Gov. JB Pritzker, according to ICE. 

“We were told over the previous administration, between 2021 and 2025, that nothing could be done unless [congress] passed some incredible legislation. Nothing could be done at the border,” Joe Abraham said. “We were told this is something that can’t happen, we can’t fix this. The President Trump comes in and it’s fixed.”

Abraham said securing the homeland from the invasion at the southwest border and restoring peace in communities merits a Nobel Peace Prize. 

“Trump has done things that the previous administration said they could never do. Does that not count for anything just because it’s America?” the Angel parent asked. 

“The Nobel committee should understand that, just in America alone, what he’s done has really secured and, if you think about it, brought some peace and solace to a lot of families here — and future families that probably won’t have to go through what we went through, thank God.”

Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.