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Reason
Eric Boehm

The Trump Administration Is Escalating an Immigration Crisis It Promised To Resolve

During last year's presidential campaign, Donald Trump and his allies promised to take swift action to resolve what they termed the "Biden border crisis"—the flow of asylum-seeking migrants across America's southern border.

Whether or not you agree with the premise that the border was a "crisis" under President Joe Biden, there's pretty compelling evidence that many Americans did. Polling shows that Trump's focus on the border and his promise to stop the flow of immigrants was a major factor in convincing voters to give him another try at the presidency.

Four months after Trump returned to the Oval Office, that crisis appears to be over. The number of migrants crossing the southern border in recent months has been a fraction of what was seen over the past few years—a fact that the Trump administration has touted as evidence of "the most secure border in history." Mission accomplished, right?

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