Trump Administration Border Policies Reduced Illegal Immigration, Border Security Expert Concludes
An expert on border security said that the data show that former President Donald Trump’s policies did reduce illegal immigration, despite claims from the Biden Administration.
The Biden Administration has basically lost all control at the Southern border. Illegal immigrants are surging our border, and VP Kamala Harris is nowhere to be seen. Children are being forced to sleep in disgusting, inhumane conditions and the White House is stumbling through the disastrous results of their rush to revoke President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
The Trump Administration immigration policies did reduce illegal immigration, a border security expert recently concluded.
When illegal immigrants did surge in 2019, “the Trump administration began two critical programs that were real game-changers,” Lora Ries, a border security and immigration expert with the Heritage Foundation said during a recent interview at The Daily Signal.
Ries has worked at the Department of Homeland Security on homeland security and border issues and is a former staffer at the Department of Justice’s Board of Immigration Appeals and the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
“One was the ‘Remain in Mexico’ program, which allowed asylum-seekers to still apply for asylum, but they had to wait in Mexico while their proceedings took place,” Ries said.
Another good policy, Ries said, “was the agreements that the Trump administration made with the governments of Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.”
Trump, Ries said, told the countries they had to help stem the tide of illegal immigrants if they wanted to continue receiving taxpayer dollars from the U.S.
Previously, the status quo was that illegal immigrants would get taxpayer-funded welfare in the U.S. and their home countries would also get billions of dollars allegedly to develop their economies so illegal immigrants would not come here.
President Biden has lost control at the border -- something President Trump established. Now, much of that good work is being undone.
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