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Border Then Vs. Now: Videos Prove Flood Of Illegals Was Intentional
Border Then Vs. Now: Videos Prove Flood Of Illegals Was Intentional
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
The Border Patrol posted footage of a massive processing facility on the southern border that has been dismantled, but just a few months ago was heaving with thousands of illegal aliens, proving conclusively that the flow could have been stopped at any time.
The videos show the huge area in Texas previously manned by the Del Rio sector teeming with activity in December 2023, then sitting virtually unused in February 2025, before being taken down and removed earlier this month, leaving just an empty field.
Border Patrol just posted this epic before vs after video pic.twitter.com/EcQHbxvBEF
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 9, 2025
Are we supposed to believe that this couldn’t have also been actioned in the past four years?
All it took was a real POTUS https://t.co/wZgKmzdRju
— Joseph DeSouza (@Joe_DeSouza) May 9, 2025
It proves beyond a shadow of a doubt what whoever was really running the country under Biden was really up to.
Visual evidence of how the Marxist left Democrats hate the US, you, and your children’s future. https://t.co/nOSx7K85dL
— John Doe by choice (@Mulvasbane) May 9, 2025
And they lied about not being able to stop it.
Proof that @JoeBiden @KamalaHarris @HouseDemocrats & @SenateDems were LYING for 4 years about needing legislation to stop illegal border crossings. All it took was a @POTUS willing to do it.
— 🇺🇸 #IAmTheNRA Rosenblum (@StevenRosenblum) May 9, 2025
There are people, no matter if they were figureheads and didn’t hold real authority, who should be held accountable and punished accordingly.
So, Mayorkas vs Noem no comparison.
When will Mayorkas be indicted https://t.co/6aw9AItdYx
— Rita Real (@ritareal) May 9, 2025
Since Trump took office encounters of illegals at the U.S.-Mexico border have significantly decreased. Data indicates that in February 2025, Border Patrol arrested 8,300 migrants, the lowest monthly level since 2000. In March 2025, encounters dropped further to 7,000, the fewest since monthly records began in 2000.
In contrast, the peak of migrant encounters under President Joe Biden occurred in December 2023, with approximately 370,000 encounters, or about 12,000 per day.
This reflects a roughly 95% reduction in daily encounters under Trump’s initial months compared to Biden’s peak.
Additionally, “gotaways” (migrants not apprehended) have reportedly decreased significantly under Trump, with a daily average of 77 over a 21-day period in early 2025, compared to 1,837 daily under Biden in fiscal year 2023.
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Mon, 05/12/2025 – 06:30
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Solana Block Traders See SOL Extending Gains, Surpassing $200 by End-June
SOL, the native cryptocurrency of the Solana programmable blockchain has staged a sharp four-week rally, surging 85% since April 7 — more than double the pace of bitcoin (BTC) — and large options traders are positioning for further gains.
The token climbed to around $176 in recent days as crypto and traditional markets embraced a greater degree of risk. Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market value, has climbed 40%, CoinDesk data show.
The gains are unlikely to reverse in the near future, if block traders — primarily institutions and market participants that execute large trading orders over the counter and outside of the public order book — are correct. They have snapped up the Deribit-listed June 27 expiry SOL $200 call option in large numbers, a sign they expect the price to rise above that level before the end of the first half.
“Traders also got long the $200 June expiration last week. This was the biggest block trade, trading 50,000x contracts in total for $263,000 in premium,” Greg Magadini, the director of derivatives at Amberdata, said in an email. On Deribit, one options contract represents one SOL.
A call option gives the purchaser the right, but not the obligation, to buy the underlying asset at a predetermined price at a later date. A call buyer is implicitly bullish on the market. It’s like buying a lottery ticket, where the holder has the chance to make significant gains if they win, while risking only the initial amount paid for purchasing the ticket.
Magadini added that these call options were snapped up at an annualized implied volatility (IV) of 84%. In other words, traders timed it perfectly, snapping up calls while they were cheap as SOL’s IV typically hovers in triple digits.
Data shows that the demand for the $200 call option has left market makers or dealers with a significant net negative gamma exposure at the strike price.
Market makers with a net negative gamma exposure typically buy as prices rise and sell during dips, aiming to rebalance their portfolios toward a delta-neutral, or market-neutral, position. Their hedging activities often amplify market swings.
So it’s likely volatility will pick up as SOL potentially crosses the $200 mark.
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