The Ben Shapiro Show - August 27, 2026


Trump Is Racking Up Wins


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7 minutes

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200.29

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1,402

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99


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00:00:00.000 One of the most undercover Trump wins of the past year and a half is obviously his treatment of the southern border and also mass deportation of legitimately at least a million illegal immigrants.
00:00:10.000 And probably, if you're talking about self deportations, up to three.
00:00:13.000 The highest range estimates of the number of illegal immigrants in the United States is about 15 million.
00:00:17.000 It is not 100 million, as per Tucker Carlson or his guests.
00:00:20.000 The administration has deported all time highs of illegal migrants from both the border itself and from the interior of the country.
00:00:26.000 And then there's self deportation on top of all of that.
00:00:29.000 Listen, the president, he doesn't win them all, but when he does win, he ought to get credit where the credit is due.
00:00:35.000 The Trump administration has, in fact, performed some pretty extraordinary feats with regard to illegal immigration.
00:00:40.000 So, not only did they shut the southern border literally day one, according to the Daily Wire, the Trump administration has now deported over 1 million illegal immigrants from the United States.
00:00:49.000 About a third of those were recent border crossers who returned back home, according to new data obtained by the Daily Wire.
00:00:55.000 ICE has deported roughly 706,000 of the 1 million total.
00:00:59.000 CBP has removed around 323,000 others.
00:01:04.000 And that does not include.
00:01:06.000 The 1.4 million illegal immigrants who have self deported, meaning people who realized that they were on short time and were going to get deported.
00:01:13.000 There was Mark Wayne Mullen, the head of DHS, explaining.
00:01:18.000 1.4 total aliens have been, since we've been put in place, have either volunteered to be deported, yet we paid for them or we forced them.
00:01:31.000 But as I said, total removals have said, hey, we're leaving the country and did it on themselves was over 3 million.
00:01:37.000 Again, that is a good thing.
00:01:39.000 The president doesn't get enough credit for this because of all of the hatred of the president.
00:01:43.000 And also because, again, there are people on the right who are determined to just run down the president on literally everything.
00:01:49.000 And they're not calling balls and strikes.
00:01:51.000 They've just decided the president is bad.
00:01:53.000 So Tucker Carlson, again, is just in the demoralization business.
00:01:56.000 His entire game is to tell you that everything is lost.
00:01:59.000 All is lost in the United States of America by ALP.
00:02:01.000 So you had on Greg Bavino, who was the former commander at large of Border Patrol.
00:02:05.000 Greg Bavino, of course, was a nutty character.
00:02:08.000 We mentioned this at the time.
00:02:09.000 He did a pretty terrible job in Minneapolis.
00:02:11.000 He would do a wide variety of public events at which he would make a mockery of himself, say dumb things, get himself in trouble, and all the rest.
00:02:18.000 And then he had to basically be put out of power by Tom Homan, who came in, acted like a professional, and locked things down.
00:02:24.000 Well, Greg Bavino is now appearing on Tucker Carlson, where he's making the rather extraordinary claim that there are 107 million illegal immigrants living in the United States.
00:02:35.000 Now, if you think that's true, then of course, everything Trump is doing looks like a drop in the bucket.
00:02:39.000 The real answer is there's probably somewhere between 10 and 15 million illegal immigrants in the United States.
00:02:43.000 107 million illegal immigrants.
00:02:45.000 The total population of the U.S. is, I think, 340 million, somewhere in that.
00:02:49.000 That would mean one out of every three humans you know in the United States is an illegal immigrant.
00:02:55.000 Do you think that's true?
00:02:57.000 But again, the Tucker Carlson Demoralization Hour with Greg Bavino.
00:03:02.000 Right now in the United States, I've got the number at 107 million illegal aliens currently residing with impunity, I might add, in the United States.
00:03:14.000 107 million?
00:03:15.000 107 million.
00:03:16.000 One quarter of the population.
00:03:18.000 330,000 approximately American citizens add another 107 million onto that.
00:03:18.000 We've got.
00:03:27.000 So he's actually making the claim that there are 450 million people living in the United States and you just didn't notice.
00:03:33.000 Hmm, sounds not right.
00:03:37.000 It's more on this in a moment.
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00:04:39.000 The Center for Immigration Studies, by the way, which is a very, very conservative group, they say that the illegal immigration population reached an all time peak of about 15 million, according to census data and BLS data.
00:04:49.000 That sounds a lot more reasonable.
00:04:52.000 According to the DHS's own numbers, in 2025, 167,000 aliens with criminal convictions and arrests were deported.
00:04:59.000 In 2025, 275,000 aliens without additional criminal records were deported as well.
00:05:04.000 That's a 63% increase in total deportations from 2024.
00:05:08.000 So that actually is a victory.
00:05:10.000 One of the problems for the Trump administration is when you fix a problem, you don't get credit for it.
00:05:14.000 That's typically the way that it works when you're in power.
00:05:16.000 Once you fix the immigration issue, very difficult to run on the immigration issue.
00:05:20.000 And the Trump administration has, in fact, done a pretty great job in terms of ratcheting.
00:05:25.000 They could always do more.
00:05:26.000 There are always things they could do better.
00:05:28.000 But overall, the numbers are pretty good from the Trump administration here.
00:05:32.000 Americans, broadly speaking, do not want a return to the battle days of Joe Biden and open borders.
00:05:37.000 But One of the fascinating things about being the president is that when some of your numbers go down, all of your numbers go down.
00:05:43.000 So the president is barely over water on immigration, whereas before he was soaring on immigration.
00:05:48.000 Again, when issues drop in the American mind, then they become less important for elections.
00:05:53.000 Now, I think the president is probably going to ramp up the immigration talk again going into the midterms.
00:05:57.000 He tried to do this back in 2018.
00:05:59.000 It did not work well.
00:06:01.000 The truth is the American people right now are much more focused on the economy than on immigration, but I think it's absurd that there are so many Supposed Republicans, supposed conservatives who are out there basically looking for any opportunity to dunk on the president, even in the areas where he's actually winning.
00:06:17.000 Why don't we actually look at the real things that are failing and the real things that are succeeding?
00:06:20.000 That has always been the best way to view President Trump.
00:06:22.000 On immigration, the president is by far the best immigration president in terms of restrictionism, in terms of trying to prevent illegal immigration, in terms of shutting the border.
00:06:31.000 And all of that has resulted in precisely what Mitt Romney actually talked about back in 2012 that self deportation, people looking and realizing that if they stay here interminably, eventually ICE will find them and they will be deported.
00:06:42.000 So, again, these are big wins for President Trump.
00:06:45.000 And just because people don't like everything he's doing doesn't mean that they ought to condemn everything that he's doing equally.
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