Trump’s deportation record is underrated

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Few presidents have so thoroughly delivered on a campaign promise as President Donald Trump has in securing the southern border. In December 2023, under the Biden administration, a record high of 301,981 illegal immigrants were arrested at the border. Just one month after Trump took office, that number had fallen to 11,000. 

Under former President Joe Biden, our southern border was a lawless free-for-all where tens of thousands of illegal immigrants were being caught and released into the United States every month. Biden was even helping thousands of them fly into the country.

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