San Diego County, California. – A group of American military warriors who were formed to respond to the crisis on the southern border continued to work, even like President Donald Trump He has largely continued promises to stop the flow of illegal crossings.
“As a country, we were calmly at night,” said Kate Monroe, a veterans in the naval weapon that became the founder of Border Vets, a group of American military warriors who gave their time and money to form holes in the border barrier in southern California, Fox News Digital. “It is not difficult to secure the nation as people might think.”
Comments come as a group founded by Monroe, veterinarians, and continued to work to correct potential weaknesses on the American border with Mexico in Southern California.
On a cold rainy and unusual day in San Diego County, Monroe Fox News called the digital to see the continuous work of the Volunteer Organization. A group of approximately ten American military warriors who have been marked along the ride, and returned to the notorious “Saint Judah Rest”, a gap in the border wall that was at its peak that allows more than 3000 illegal immigrants to plunge to the United States on a weekly basis.
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Border Vets members corrected a hole in the barrier on the borders of the United States and Mexico in the province of San Diego, California, on March 10, 2025. (Michael Lee/Fox News Digital)
In the case, there is a gap in the barrier where the fencing that the US government set up meets with a mountainous formation, leaving a small road to the country for thousands of immigrants who know where to look. While the border veterinarian members corrected the hole with shaving wire last year, the group returned to the place for improvements to the barrier and expanded them to the top of the hill in an attempt to bend. Illegal crossings.
But things have changed in this place since the veterinarians initially volunteered with their time and money to correct the hole, as the illegal crossings have now reached a stop in the region since Trump took office in January.
The Mexican army also started occupying the area, stood a temporary camp on the other side of the border just two feet from the place where the border veterinarians operate.
Border Vets Plain wires placed a hole in the barrier on the US -Mexican border in San Diego County, California, on March 10, 2025. (Michael Lee/Fox News Digital)
The Mexican government's cooperation and Trump's re -introduction to the White House had a profound impact on crossing the numbers, as February data showed that only 8,300 people tried to do so Cross the border illegally Last month, the slightest mark has been registered since 2000.
Customs and US Border Protection agents (CBP) also had much lower Clashes with illegal immigrants Compared to the same time period in 2023 and 2024, only 30,000 meetings were scored in February 2025 compared to more than 130,000 during the same time period in 2023 and 2024.
Border Vets Plain wires placed a hole in the barrier on the US -Mexican border in San Diego County, California, on March 10, 2025. (Michael Lee/Fox News Digital)
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However, the border veterinarian members continued their volunteer work, noting that some immigrants have been identified enough to find a road.
“Things are improving on the border,” said one of the old naval warriors who volunteer in veterinarian in Fox News, noting that there are still gaps, not only metaphors, but only, but craft gaps in the border.
“You can see the pedestrian corridor that people only walk,” he added.
The group insists that they did not face a big problem with CBP customers who periodically in the region, on the pretext that many welcomed help, especially during the height of the illegal crossings that were seen in the past few years. The agent who spoke unknown to Fox News Digital on Tuesday in a similar tone, noting that the agency does not prevent the group from creating temporary barriers.
In one area of San Diego Province, near Jacumba Hot Springs, a temporary shelter built of wooden platforms and hemp, a site that hosted hundreds of immigrants waiting to submit asylum claims with border factors, empty.
The temporary shelter that includes migrants stands empty amid the border campaign of President Donald Trump. (Michael Lee/Fox News Digital)
The temporary shelter that includes migrants stands empty amid the border campaign of President Donald Trump. (Michael Lee/Fox News Digital)
In other areas of the borders of San Diego province With Mexico On Tuesday, the members examined the patching barriers with reference to the blatant difference between now and a few months ago.
“It is a crazy thing,” Monroe said. “He used to be hundreds of people who cross every time I came, and now not one. Not because of the rain, they were rating or sunlight … The difference was very amazing.”
Members of the veterinarians welcomed the border change, although they are planning to stay vigilant to prevent the situation from returning to the crisis point that it has reached over the past few years.
“The open border policy that we have dealt with over the past four years was only harm to the country,” said a veteran member of Border Vets Digital. “We are all struggling, and we all deal with a bad hand, and not only send the correct message to open our limits wide when every other nation has border policies.”
