President Trump on Tuesday smacked Democrats and the national media across the face at his State of the Union address on Tuesday night by rightfully bragging about his accomplishments in the midst of an impeachment trial.
But he lied to his supporters in one very crucial area: the border.
Trump said at the start of his speech, “Our borders are secure.”
Wait, what? So there’s a wall now? Illegal border crossings have dropped to zero?
The answer to both is the same answer I give homeless drunks: No.
The latest government data for the border comes from December, and it says that there were nearly 41,000 apprehensions of illegal immigrants at the border that month. The month before, a nearly 43,000. The month before that, more than 45,000.
That’s 129,000 illegal immigrants who entered the country in the last three months before hitting the new year. The administration deserves a lot of credit for setting up systems that have at least slowed the number of illegal immigrants flooding into the United States, but if one is too many, what is nearly 130,000? Some may have had to return to Mexico to wait, but there is no available data on that.
The border isn’t “secure,” and Trump’s supporters deserve to know that.
