During his Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress, President Trump touted recently-released record-low February border crossing numbers, boasting: “All we really needed [to secure the border] was a new president.”
Indeed, the Trump administration does appear to have almost completely eliminated illegal border crossings, solely through executive action and enforcing current immigration laws. Given the dramatic change, it’s worth remembering how many journalists spent the past four years lying that the Biden administration was powerless to address the border crisis without congressional action.
For the first couple of years of the Biden administration, both Democrats and the corporate media were unwilling to admit there was even a problem. Readers will recall the Biden administration’s common refrain of: “The border is…
