Wow, would ya look at that?
Wait, law enforcement works? You're telling me that criminals won't do criminal things, like trespassing into another country, if they are afraid of punishment?
Listen to one resident of Eagle Pass, Texas, talk about how tranquil life has been since Trump's policies took effect:
As he looked out over the murky waters of the Rio Grande one day last week, Mike Banks, the head of U.S. Border Patrol, mused on the difference nine months can make.
'We're watching cranes take off as the boats pass. We're watching ducks fly,' Banks told NBC News aboard an airboat in Eagle Pass, Texas.
The quiet, Banks said, is a stark contrast to what he saw more than two years ago, in fall 2023, when border crossings were at a peak and the border sector where Eagle Pass is located would encounter 2,000 migrants a day.
That number is now just about 20 a day.
Here is a random day from 2023 if you need a visual on what things were like under Biden:
The cataclysmic drop-off in border crossings has been seen everywhere.
NBC News made a chart to demonstrate the difference:
CBS News has another chart that shows the fluctuation over time:
Wild!
Joe Biden famously said his hands were tied when it came to the border, arguing that Congress needed to pass new laws to give him funding.
As it turns out, those laws already existed (shocker, I know!).
The NBC chart visualizes how easy it would have been for Biden to stop the human trafficking into the United States; since he didn't, and the purpose of a system is what it does, one could argue that Biden purposely left America's border open.
The difference between the first Trump administration and the second is also clear. NBC notes that Trump focused on building physical border walls during his first term. This time, his focus is on law enforcement operations.
'The biggest key to this is when Border Patrol is in the interior, assisting ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and making apprehensions, we send a clear message,' Banks said.
This means that at any point over the last 50 years, the politicians could have stopped the flow of illegal immigration into the United States, but didn't.
Something to think about.
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