The border crisis that began almost immediately after the presidency passed from Donald Trump to Joe Biden came to a close within a month of Biden handing the Oval Office back to Trump. As it turns out, the record-setting influx of illegal immigrants and fentanyl flooding the border every month didn’t require a new set of laws. It just required a new president, who, as it turns out, is the same as the old one who secured the border in the first place.
Thanks to his revived diplomatic deals — that is, Remain in Mexico and the Safe Third Country deals with our Northern Triangle neighbors — and enforcing the law as written in the form of a 627% increase in ICE arrests, illegal border crossings in February fell to fewer than 9,000, just 3% of the Biden monthly peak of more than 301,000 crossings. While Trump can and should surely codify some of these border security provisions so a future president can’t use executive fiat to unbuild the wall, the border crisis, as far as an immediate priority goes, is already over thanks to the unilateral action of one Donald Trump.
