Posted on 03/05/2025 8:10:48 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
After President Trump’s first month in office, border encounters are down. Way down. Ninety-six percent down. From around 300,000 in December 2023 under President Joe Biden, to just 8,300 in February 2025. The number averaged just under 300 a day last month, constituting “the lowest month in recorded history,” according to the chief of the Border Patrol.
Some of this is the sheer deterrent effect of having a loud and proud border hawk in the White House — the so-called “Trump effect” starkly reduced border crossings at the outset of the president’s first term, as well. But, this time, the administration has also put in place policies designed to keep the numbers low for the duration, including, very importantly, rapid expulsions after we detain illegal crossers.
To get a sense of the achievement, it helps to review the record of the previous administration. Joe Biden spent his first several weeks as president revoking, rewriting, or simply putting into the trash the suite of executive orders and enforcement guidelines that the first Trump administration had used to establish control of America’s southern border and end the abuse of our asylum system. Biden’s actions kicked off a yearslong border crisis which melted down the emergency resources of border towns and caused New York’s mayor to prophesy the destruction of his city’s finances. Biden’s solution was a series of “pen-and-phone” quasi-amnesties and various forms of temporary status given to millions of people crossing with fake asylum claims.
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NR actually has something good to say about Trump?
I didn’t know there was anyone left at National Review who would write an article complementing Trump. LOL
The laws were already in place; the laws were not being enforced.
Isn’t amazing how simply closing the door can keep people from walking in!
Trump’s early success also exposed the lies of dimocrats and their media apparatchiks.
The Lankford Bill was another Senate Con.
Lankford should be Primaried in OK.
A strong President was all that was needed.
Thanks for the grammar tip
National Review uses a lot of words.
Trump said the same thing in a few words-—
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1897148869609447710
Nobody reads National Review, but millions heard Trump say the above.
Millions of democrats feel the burn from that line. Heck, made me wince out of some misguided empathy response. I need a shower.
As Trump said last night, we didn’t need a new bill to slow illegal immigration, we just needed a new president.
Yep, I nearly fainted.
It would be wrong to start a rumor that Trump has authorized shooting border crossers with bullets dipped in Pig fat.
So don’t anybody do that
Oh, please! There are probably almost that many ILLEGAL ALIENS in the country. If you add legally-present foreign born, then the total is likely closer to 80 million.
I know. You’d think they’d be crying. They love open borders along with the WSJ.
...all you really needed...
I see what you did there!
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