Border security win

 CIS.org:

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As I recently reported, Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal migrants at the Southwest border dropped to their lowest level in recorded history in June: 6,072, in total, a roughly 93-percent decline compared to June 2024, but more impressively 45.5 percent fewer than the previous record low, three months into President Trump’s first term in April 2017.

And it’s not just Border Patrol. In June, CBP officers at the agency’s Southwest border ports of entry recorded just 3,234 encounters, or 26.5 percent fewer than their prior low-water mark of 4,393 in March 2017.

Lest you get too optimistic, note that CBP encounters at the U.S.-Mexico line rebounded by the middle of the first Trump administration before Covid-19 shut down nearly all international travel. In May 2019, Southwest border agents apprehended nearly 133,000 illegal migrants and CBP officers stopped more than 11,000 inadmissible travelers at the ports there.

It’s possible that we may yet see a similar swing under Trump II, particularly if the latest order from Judge Randolph Moss of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia curbing the president’s migrant policies stands.

But for now, all’s (reasonably) quiet on the Southwestern front, and that’s little short of a miracle given claims by the last administration and most in the media (the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, etc.) in the run-up to the 2024 elections that Congress had to act for the border to be secure.

Congress hasn’t changed the border laws, and yet here we are.
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Biden and many Democrats did not want border security because they thought they were importing future Democrat voters.  A majority of Americans disagreed, and that is one of the reasons a majority of voters back President Trump.  The Border Patrol is now allowed to do its job, and it is returning the effective control of the border.  District Court judges should not be trying to change US immigration laws and policies.  They have no right to curb the president's power to control immigration and restrict it to legal immigrants.  Congress didn't need to act to get control of the border.  

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