At the 100-day mark, it’s an obvious fact that the border is now secure. Illegal immigration is now a trickle. The network “news” folks hate to mention it. But they are eager to cite polls that find Trump’s immigration approval number is declining. Forget the successes, and drive the notion that he’s losing juice in the polls.

To troll the anti-Trump press, Team Trump put posters on the White House lawn – right behind the camera positions where the White House reporters chat with their anchors – with mugshots of illegal aliens who were arrested (and mostly convicted) of serious crimes, including fentanyl importation and child sexual assault.

The Trump haters responded by blurring the images, out of great sensitivity to the unlikely potential innocence of undocumented criminals. As he began his show The Lead, CNN anchor Jake Tapper opened a bottle of sarcasm about the “full-court press” of Team Trump.

“So they subtly and tastefully deck the White House North Lawn with dozens of yard signs featuring photos of people that the Trump administration claims are in the country illegally,” Tapper cracked. “Each poster saying ‘Arrested’ and listing the alleged offense with which they have been charged. CNN's working to confirm the identities and if there are actual allegations against these people, until then we are blurring their identities.”

Now ask yourself: How many times have Jake Tapper and the CNN Army recently displayed a picture of illegal immigrant Victor Martinez-Hernandez, who was the perpetrator just convicted in a Maryland court of raping and murdering Rachel Morin as she was jogging in 2023? It’s easy to guess. It’s zero. They don’t want to spend any time on that problem.