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Trump’s Early Success at the Border Exposes Biden Lies
National Review ^ | 4/4/25 | NR editors

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; biden; borders; graft; illegals; trump

1 posted on 03/05/2025 8:10:48 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo

NR actually has something good to say about Trump?


2 posted on 03/05/2025 8:16:43 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Mr. Mojo

I didn’t know there was anyone left at National Review who would write an article complementing Trump. LOL


3 posted on 03/05/2025 8:17:13 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

The laws were already in place; the laws were not being enforced.


4 posted on 03/05/2025 8:18:38 AM PST by yldstrk (Nothing like the truth)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Isn’t amazing how simply closing the door can keep people from walking in!


5 posted on 03/05/2025 8:22:47 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you i9s how they. control you. )
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To: Mr. Mojo

Trump’s early success also exposed the lies of dimocrats and their media apparatchiks.


6 posted on 03/05/2025 8:30:17 AM PST by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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To: Tell It Right

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/complement-and-compliment-usage-difference


7 posted on 03/05/2025 8:30:30 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Mr. Mojo

The Lankford Bill was another Senate Con.
Lankford should be Primaried in OK.

A strong President was all that was needed.


8 posted on 03/05/2025 8:30:47 AM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: Ge0ffrey
Maybe the NR helped complete the PR Trump needed? LOL

Thanks for the grammar tip

9 posted on 03/05/2025 8:32:30 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

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.


10 posted on 03/05/2025 8:36:17 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter (,)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Millions of democrats feel the burn from that line. Heck, made me wince out of some misguided empathy response. I need a shower.


11 posted on 03/05/2025 8:59:12 AM PST by paulcissa (Politicians want you disarmed because they intend on doing things you would shoot them for.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

As Trump said last night, we didn’t need a new bill to slow illegal immigration, we just needed a new president.


12 posted on 03/05/2025 9:03:10 AM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Yep, I nearly fainted.


13 posted on 03/05/2025 9:04:16 AM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

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


14 posted on 03/05/2025 9:46:15 AM PST by Mr. K (no consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Mr. Mojo
Just last year, the foreign-born percentage of the population of the United States ballooned to a historic high — 15.6 percent of the U.S. population, or 51.6 million people.

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.

15 posted on 03/05/2025 10:01:04 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

I know. You’d think they’d be crying. They love open borders along with the WSJ.


16 posted on 03/05/2025 10:05:56 AM PST by Fledermaus (I'm getting tired of the contrarians on FR.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

...all you really needed...


17 posted on 03/05/2025 3:48:30 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Tell It Right

I see what you did there!


18 posted on 03/05/2025 3:49:17 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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