For decades, Congress and a parade of presidents couldn’t agree on how to secure the southern border and what to do with the millions of illegal immigrants already here. 

Recall that in 2007, just six years after the terrorist attack of 9/11, President George W. Bush declared that “family values did not stop at the Rio Grande River and that people are coming here to put food on the table, and they’re doing jobs Americans are not doing.” 

He added, “People are coming to work, and many of them have no lawful way to come to America, and so they’re sneaking in.” 

Although Bush’s views were too liberal for many of his fellow Republicans, they reflected a widely shared sentiment that the nation’s estimated 11 million immigrants, legal and illegal, were an important part of the labor force and many communities. 

Little by little, election by election, Democrats and the radical left seized on that sentiment and turned it into a cause.

With Washington unable to forge a solution to the growing numbers, and with border enforcement spotty, the left achieved a devastating milestone. 

First in language, and then in the culture and blue state legal systems, it won an early “woke” victory by effectively erasing the distinction between legal and illegal immigrants. 

In some quarters, even calling illegals “undocumented” was deemed too harsh because it supposedly diminished the immigrants’ humanity. 

Joe Biden’s four years changed the game entirely.

He threw open the border and, with support from legacy media, lied to the public as up to 20 million people came across, unvetted and determined to stay. 

Donald Trump is the one modern president who sees the issue with clarity, a fact he demonstrated the moment he entered the political........

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