Tuesday Headlines: February 25, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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John Fawcett breaks down the news and headlines you need to know for your Tuesday, including the significant decrease in migrant apprehensions along the southwest border, Trump's latest approval ratings for mass deportation efforts and the implications of corporate investments, such as Apple's $500 billion commitment to the U.S. economy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawson with this Great America show Midday Update for Tuesday, February 25th. |
| 0:06.3 | The Trump effect is in full effect, as we like to say on this show. |
| 0:10.1 | Single-day migrant apprehension numbers on the southwest border fall below 200, folks. 200. |
| 0:18.6 | The apprehensions of migrants along the southwest border of Mexico fell to a historic low |
| 0:22.3 | late last week, late last week, according to the |
| 0:24.6 | Texas Department of Public Safety. |
| 0:26.8 | Agents encountered just 199 |
| 0:28.5 | migrants on Friday compared to, you ready for this, |
| 0:31.6 | folks, almost 4,400 one |
| 0:34.6 | year earlier. The Texas Department of Public |
| 0:36.8 | Safety spokesman, Lieutenant Chris |
| 0:38.3 | Oliver is posting the stats on Twitter in El Paso just 49 crossings. The Rio Grande |
| 0:44.7 | Valley 34, Laredo 32, Del Rio 16 and Big Ben just four. The DPS reported that this represents |
| 0:51.7 | a 95% decrease from the almost 4,400 migrants apprehended on the same day last year. |
| 0:58.1 | Of the 199 migrants encountered on that Friday, 135 were apprehended in five Texas-based border sectors. |
| 1:05.3 | This is down 35% from the reported 208 per day. |
| 1:09.2 | That was averaging last week. |
| 1:10.9 | Folks, the Trump effect is having a great effect on America. |
| 1:15.3 | Folks, it's not just the border numbers that are down, |
| 1:17.4 | but it's Trump's mass deportation numbers, and they're up. |
| 1:21.4 | New survey reveals that Trump's mass deportation policy |
| 1:24.4 | has a 62% approval rating, whopping 62%. |
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