So, it turns out Donald Trump was right about the bipartisan immigration bill.

We didn’t need it to stop historic levels of illegal immigration.

Proof of that is Joe Biden.

That’s right, the Democratic president is proving the Republican former president and candidate for his job was on the mark.

This week, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security produced the data that settle the matter, as CBS News reported that “Border Patrol’s tally of migrant apprehensions in September is the lowest number recorded by the agency since August 2020.”

Problem solved.

At least from where we were.

Earlier this year when a bipartisan deal was forming, Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas argued that the White House wasn’t responsible for successive years of record-smashing border apprehensions under Biden’s watch.

“We don’t bear responsibility for a broken system,” Mayorkas said. “Fundamentally, Congress is the only one who can fix it.”

In that spirit, congressional Republicans and Democrats came together to fashion a bill that would have reformed........

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