Trump’s total control of the border is the success story of 2025 |
Two years ago this month, more than 300,000 illegal immigrants were stopped by Customs and Border Protection officers along the southwest border of the United States, and almost all of them were quickly released into the country.
At the time, we were told by even supposedly conservative media outlets that there was nothing the Biden administration could do to stop the migrant flood and that only bipartisan legislation from Congress could solve the problem.
All of that turned out to be completely false. New legislation was not needed to secure the border, just a president with the political will to enforce existing laws and ignore the caterwauling from the nation’s liberal opinion pages.
Thanks to a secret agreement with Mexico, new illegal immigrant crossings were already falling by the time President Donald Trump took office in January of this year, but the Biden administration was still arresting about 100,000 migrants a month and releasing them into the United States. Once in office, Trump issued executive orders ending former President Joe........