‘Failure to secure the border’
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President Joe Biden is leaving office with several immigration-related milestones under his belt, including the lowest number of deportations in a single year, the highest number of border encounters in another and record fentanyl seizures.
TheBidenadministration,eagertoconductanabout-facefromthepreviousWhiteHouse’shardlinepolicyagainstimmigrationviolations,gottoworkonaflurryofexecutiveordersthattransformedenforcementoperations.WhiletheDemocraticpresidentmostlysucceededincuttingbackenforcementintheearlydaysofhisadministration,heeventuallywasleftscramblingtoreversecourseafterignitingabordercrisisthatledtothelargestinfluxofforeignnationalsinthecountry’shistory.(RELATED:‘ThisPolicyIsDangerous’:ChicagoDemsFightToRollBackCity’sSanctuaryLaw,HelpTrumpDeportCriminals)
Roughly11millionborderencounterstookplacefromFebruary2021,Biden’sfirstfullmonthinoffice,untilDecember2024,hislastfullmonth,accordingtoCustomsandBorderProtection(CBP)data.Amidtheongoingbordercrisisthatbeganun
