Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo on Tuesday hit back at comments from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who said he would “finally” end the illegal immigration problem.

Mr. DeSantis speaking at Eagle Pass, Texas promised Close the southern border.

“We will be the administration that will finally bring an end to the southern border issue. We will stop the aggression. We will fight these cartels.”

“What is your reaction to Mr. DeSantis’ border visit?” Bartiromo asked Thomas Homann, former acting head of ICE under former President Donald Trump. (Related: DeSantis: The border crisis is a ‘deliberate policy rooted in an open-border ideology’)

“Well, if you’re going to cite President Trump’s strategy, I think you should at least mention his name. Look, I’m grateful to Ron DeSantis. He’s done a great job in Florida and he’s been great We enacted immigration laws, but let me be clear, I’ve worked for six presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan, and nobody, nobody, Trump to secure our borders. No one has done more than the president,” Homan said. “Illegal immigration is down 83%. Illegal immigration is down to the lowest level in 45 years. So, again, I appreciate Ron DeSantis wanting to get serious about border security, but everything he mentioned yesterday is a no-brainer for the Trump administration. and has been very successful by the Trump administration, at least he notes that these policies have worked.”

“Well, I don’t know why he said, ‘We’re finally going to take control,’ when we know Trump is in control. You’re right, arrests under Biden. The numbers were over 40 percent lower and now are over 20 percent higher,” Bartiromo said.

Under the Biden administration, there were more than 2.2 million encounters at the southern border in fiscal year 2022 and more than 1.4 million encounters between October and May 2022. matchg to federal data. DeSantis has promised to build a wall and target drug cartels.