{"id":2525264,"date":"2025-12-26T14:42:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-dana-bash-forced-to-admit-trumps-border-policy-is-story-of-accomplishment\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T14:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:43:35","slug":"cnns-dana-bash-forced-to-admit-trumps-border-policy-is-story-of-accomplishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-dana-bash-forced-to-admit-trumps-border-policy-is-story-of-accomplishment\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash Forced to Admit Trump&#8217;s Border Policy Is &#8216;Story of Accomplishment&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnns-dana-bash-forced-to-admit-trumps-border-policy-is-story-of-accomplishment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2525264&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>CNN host Dana Bash acknowledged that President Donald Trump has reversed the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border during his first year back in office, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >citing charts comparing border metrics<\/a> under Biden (green) and Trump (yellow). The report highlights several Trump administration actions, including executive orders and designations labeling Mexican drug cartels and certain central and South American gangs as foreign terrorist organizations. It notes that Border Patrol encountered millions of migrants during the Biden presidency and that the Trump administration said no migrants were released into the U.S.for seven straight months. The Department of Homeland Security announced that more than 2.5 million people have left the country during this period, with about 1.9 million reportedly self-deporting. DHS also claimed to have accounted for over 129,000 unaccompanied minors that the previous administration had not tracked and touted enforcement operations in cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Portland. The piece frames thes developments as notable accomplishments for the president&#8217;s immigration agenda.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>CNN host Dana Bash admitted Thursday that President Donald Trump had turned around the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border in his first year since returning to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Upon taking office, Trump issued several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/protecting-the-american-people-against-invasion\/\">executive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/declaring-a-national-emergency-at-the-southern-border-of-the-united-states\/\">orders<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sure-a-few-kids-drown-some-get-raped-greg-gutfeld-flames-democrats-for-blowing-off-border-crisis\/\" title=\"\u2018Sure, A Few Kids Drown. Some Get Raped\u2019: Greg Gutfeld Flames Democrats For Blowing Off ... Crisis\">address illegal immigration<\/a>, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/designating-cartels-and-other-organizations-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations-and-specially-designated-global-terrorists\/\">designating<\/a> Mexican drug cartels, the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua, and the Salvadoran prison gang MS-13 as foreign terrorist organizations. Bash put up a series of charts showing the difference on the border between the Biden administration and the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;One of the things that you &mdash; many things that you&rsquo;ve been covering in a very detailed way this year, Zolan, is what&rsquo;s going on with immigration,&rdquo; Bash told CNN political analyst Zolan Kanno-Youngs. &ldquo;And our producer, Tess, put together a fantastic illustration of the difference in what&rsquo;s happening in the border now versus what happened just in the year beforehand, which was Joe Biden&rsquo;s presidency. Joe Biden&rsquo;s presidency is green and Donald Trump&rsquo;s is the yellow.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I mean, that tells a story of an accomplishment for the president, one that he definitely ran on,&rdquo; Bash continued. &ldquo;He definitely made a promise there, and yet there hasn&rsquo;t been a lot of focus on that because of what he has been doing in the interior of the country, which he also promised to do, which is apprehend people who are in the United States illegally and deport them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Border Patrol encountered millions of illegal immigrants during the Biden administration, according to figures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters\">released<\/a> by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, many of whom were released into the United States. The Trump administration touted in a Dec. 15 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/articles\/2025\/12\/trumps-historic-border-victory-from-open-borders-to-total-control\/\">release<\/a> that no illegal immigrants had been released into the United States for seven straight months.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2025\/12\/10\/thanks-president-trump-and-secretary-noem-more-25-million-illegal-aliens-left-us\">announced<\/a> that over 2.5 million illegal immigrants have left the United States, of which 1.9 million elected to self-deport, in a Dec. 10 release.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also noted in a Dec. 19 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2025\/12\/19\/under-president-trump-and-secretary-noem-department-homeland-security-has-historic\">release<\/a> summarizing operations for the entire year that it had accounted for over 129,000 unaccompanied minors that the Biden administration had been unable to account for, while also touting operations across the country, including those in the areas of Chicago, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p><em>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-membership-plummets-to-record-low\/\" title=\"Union Membership Plummets to Record Low\">legitimate news publisher<\/a> that can provide a large audience. 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