Trump’s Border Success Proves Republicans Never Had To Negotiate Our Sovereignty
One year ago, a handful of so-called Republicans, led by Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, backed a border bill that would have sold out American sovereignty. But as it would turn out, Lankford and his accomplices never needed to compromise our borders to secure them — as evidenced by the plummeting illegal crossings seen during President Donald Trump’s first month back in office.
New data shows illegal migrant apprehensions dropped an average of 2,000 per day in the weeks before Trump’s inauguration to just 786 following the inauguration.
“From Jan. 21 through Jan. 31, the number of U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions along the southwest border dropped 85% from the same period in 2024,” ABC News reported, citing U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. “In the 11 days after Jan. 20, migrants apprehended at ports of entry declined by 93%.”
The results weren’t by chance. Trump signed a series of executive orders upon taking office that ordered construction of the border wall to resume, declared a national emergency at the southern border, reinstated his “Remain in Mexico” policy to deter illegal crossings, and authorized the National Guard to work with Customs and Border Patrol agents to secure the border — all things former President Joe Biden could have done but chose not to.
What’s more, Biden’s negligence was not an excuse for so-called Republicans to capitulate to the left’s radical open-border demands — yet, that’s exactly what a handful did. --->READ MORE HERE
Trump’s Executive Orders On Immigration Prove Biden Could Have Secured The Border At Any Time:
One of the first things President Donald Trump did after being sworn in at the inauguration Monday was sign a series of executive orders on immigration and the border. A few of them stand out because they demonstrate how the border could have been secured at any point over the past four years by the Biden administration, without any action or new legislation from Congress.
That it wasn’t is a testament to the fact that Biden and the Democrats wanted mass illegal immigration, they wanted chaos on the southern border, and they wanted the Mexican drug cartels to be empowered and enriched. These were outcomes they intentionally chose, over and against border security and the historic low levels of illegal immigration they inherited from the first Trump administration.
Here’s what Trump did. First, he declared an emergency at the border and ordered the U.S. military to immediately resume construction of the border wall, which Biden had abruptly halted upon taking office (so abruptly, in fact, that construction materials were simply left on site or abandoned when Biden ordered work on the wall to cease).
As part of the emergency declaration, Trump also ordered U.S. troops to be deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border under U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM). These troops, together with the National Guard, will work to prioritize U.S. territorial integrity “by repelling forms of invasion, including unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking and other criminal activities,” according to incoming administration officials.
Trump also ordered an immediate end to the use of the CBP One app that the Biden administration had used to dole out mass paroles for illegal border-crossers — some 30,000 a month under Biden. As of Monday afternoon, the app was switched off and all pending appointments were canceled. Paroling illegal immigrants is a policy the Biden administration took to unprecedented highs. What was supposed to be a rare policy used on a case-by-case basis was, under Biden, applied to entire classes of illegal immigrants and then codified in the CBP One app as a mechanism for what amounted to a mass catch-and-release policy.
In addition, Trump announced the reinstatement of his Remain in Mexico policy, which was designed to deter bogus asylum claims by mandating that those caught crossing into the U.S. illegally from Mexico and then claiming asylum must wait in Mexico for their asylum cases to be adjudicated. Only a very small percentage of asylum-seekers are ever granted asylum, but they have created such a backlog in our immigration courts that the wait time is now three or four years (or more), during which time asylum-seekers are authorized to live and work in the U.S. while their cases wind through our sclerotic immigration court system. --->READ MORE HERE
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