How the Democrats Bungled the Politics of Immigration
Story by David Luhnow, Ryan Dubé, Juan Forero • 12h
At a rally this week in Madison Square Garden, Donald Trump asked for what he calls his “favorite chart” to be beamed onto the giant screens. With bold type and bright colors, it shows the dramatic rise in illegal border crossings into the U.S. over the past four years. It is the chart that Trump was starting to show a crowd at the rally in Butler, Pa., in July when he turned and was grazed by a would-be assassin’s bullet. He credits the chart with saving his life.
But that’s not the only reason he likes it. “Even if it had bad numbers, I’d love that chart, but it doesn’t. It has great numbers,” he said in New York. “Look at that, it rises faster than an Elon Musk rocket ship,” he said to the cheering crowd. The chart fails to note that the increase in illegal border crossings began in the last months of Trump’s presidency, but the trend is unmistakable—and has proved to be one of Kamala Harris’s biggest political liabilities as Election Day approaches.
In his first weeks in the Oval Office, President Biden made a sharp U-turn on Trump’s immigration policies. He ordered a halt to building the border wall, suspended deportations and ended a Trump policy forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico. His 28 executive orders on the issue included rescinding a Trump policy making every migrant who crossed the border illegally subject to deportation, not just those who later committed a crime. And he sent a bill to Congress to legalize 11 million people without permanent legal status. It went nowhere.
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