President Donald Trump has for now delivered smashingly on his campaign promise to gain control of our Southern border. The numbers tell the story.
The Border Patrol made 29,000 arrests in January, the Wall Street Journal reported recently. That’s down 38% from December. (In February, the Border Patrol made 8,300 arrests).
The New York Times reveals that shelters in South Texas now have plenty of available beds after being overwhelmed last year. “In San Antonio, a shelter run by Catholic Charities plans to shut its doors entirely because of a lack of new arrivals.” In Tucson, Arizona, “once the busiest section of the entire border, apprehensions and other encounters with immigrants have fallen to about 450 per week from 1,200 per week in late January,” officials told the Times.
Notably, the Journal and the Times can’t resist pointing out that illegal crossings were falling during the waning days of the Biden administration — and that’s true. But attempts at whitewashing ignore the fact that, as president, Joe Biden allowed an estimated 8 million illegal migrants into the country in an attempt to appease the open-border wing of his party.
One of Biden’s first acts in the Oval Office was to rescind Trump executive orders intended to deter illegal immigration. He also liberally expanded the definition of asylum-seeker, encouraging more migrant crossings. Those who were apprehended were typically released into the country and told to appear in court years down the road. Many big cities became overwhelmed by the influx, moving even Democratic mayors of “sanctuary cities” to beg Washington for relief.