Trump exposed Bidens biggest lie: that the border crisis was unsolvable

Last year around this time, Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party and liberal commentators insisted the only thing that would fix the greatest border crisis in American history was a special Senate bill, or “comprehensive immigration reform,” or fixing the “root causes.”There was nothing else that could stop the 10 million illegal immigrants whom Biden allowed into the country.It took President Trump approximately one hour to prove them wrong.The signature achievement of Trump’s first 100 days in office — fixing the border — was achieved by dusting off a few old tools that were always in the back shed.Trump first ended Biden’s ­legally dubious temporary “parole” admissions programs that let aspiring illegal immigrants “legally” fly or walk over the border and stay with work authorization for two-year periods.He replaced Biden’s policies of mass releases of illegal border crossers with 100% detention, expedited deportations, sizable interior deportations and a lot of federal illegal-entry prosecutions.He staffed the new hunt-and-capture mission with thousands of military personnel deputized to make immigration arrests.Word that detention, deportation and federal prosecution, put in place on Inauguration Day — plus a Trump tariff-induced Mexican military operation to hunt and deport migrants on its side — spread like wildfire across the world.And lo and behold, aspiring border crossers didn’t want to pay the smuggling money on a lost cause.“I’m just going to give up and go back to Venezuela,” one woman in a squalid Mexico City encampment told me in December.“I have children to take care of.

I’ll just go back because, with Donald Trump, it’s going to be too hard.”Many others told me the same during another reporting trip to Juarez in April, where I found a vast empty silence hanging over a border region that, in my previous visits over the past four years, had the look and feel of a kicke...