“I had to take executive action,” President Joe Biden claimed well after midnight on the first night of the Democratic National Convention. “As a result of the executive action I took, border encounters have dropped over 50%. In fact, there are fewer border crossings today than when Donald Trump left office.”

Almost everything Biden said that night is, of course, false.

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