Promise kept: How Trumps border orders are reversing the migrant crisis

President Trump identified immigration as the issue that put him over the top in the 2024 election, and now he’s moving quickly to fulfill his promises — taking a slew of actions to recalibrate our immigration system. While foes and friends have focused on his directives to end birthright citizenship and designate foreign drug cartels and criminal gangs as terrorist organizations, Trump’s other immigration initiatives will be much more impactful, at least in the short term. Almost immediately after taking office, Trump shut down access to the CBP One app for inadmissible migrants seeking quick entry into the United States.Biden transformed the app, created in Trump’s first term to expedite lawful travel, into a tool to promote illegal entry.Up to 43,500 illegal migrants per month used it to enter unlawfully through border ports. Keep that in mind as advocates claim border fixes aren’t necessary because apprehensions are down: Those hundreds of thousands of CBP One migrants had no more right to enter than did other migrants who jumped the line.Congress has revealed that nearly 96% of aliens who used the app were waved in without vetting, and in August, the DHS Inspector General found that 1,700 different app users claimed just seven US addresses as intended destinations.Trump also issued a proclamation suspending illegal entries outside the ports of entry that will — once implemented — restrict illegal migrants’ ability to apply for asylum, in an effort to protect states from criminal aliens and preserve limited public resources. This order is similar to one Trump issued in 2018, Presidential Proclamation 9822, which also suspended asylum for migrants who bypassed the ports and entered illegally.PP 9822 was meant to give teeth to regulations issued by the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security barring asylum grants to aliens who attempted to enter in violation of a proclamation — like PP 9822.Those regulations were enjoined ...