Trump 1.0 tried to build his Big Beautiful Wall and implement many other policies to get a grip on abuse of the immigration rules.
Obama ran a relatively normal immigration policy with "deportations" (incl border turnarounds) increasing until wokeness emerged in 2012, after which number of deportations went into sharp decline.
George W Bush more than doubled border spending, ended catch and release, created the Secure Border Initiative, sent 6000 National Guard members to the southern border, and called on Congress to pass comprehensive immigration enforcement upgrades: https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/stateoftheunion/...
Bill Clinton did a crackdown against illegal immigration, passing the 1996 IIRAIRA act that made it easier to deport illegals and increased border security.
This has been a live issue for a long time and was a bipartisan issue up until 2012, when wokeness took off (https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vVtE!,f_auto,q_auto:...). After that the Republicans stuck to the prior position and the Democrats moved FAR to the left. Bill Clinton would be a "fascist" to them. The fact that Bill Clinton had nothing in common with Hitler or Mussolini doesn't register with them at all.
Trump 1.0 tried to build his Big Beautiful Wall and implement many other policies to get a grip on abuse of the immigration rules.
Obama ran a relatively normal immigration policy with "deportations" (incl border turnarounds) increasing until wokeness emerged in 2012, after which number of deportations went into sharp decline.
George W Bush more than doubled border spending, ended catch and release, created the Secure Border Initiative, sent 6000 National Guard members to the southern border, and called on Congress to pass comprehensive immigration enforcement upgrades: https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/stateoftheunion/...
Bill Clinton did a crackdown against illegal immigration, passing the 1996 IIRAIRA act that made it easier to deport illegals and increased border security.
This has been a live issue for a long time and was a bipartisan issue up until 2012, when wokeness took off (https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vVtE!,f_auto,q_auto:...). After that the Republicans stuck to the prior position and the Democrats moved FAR to the left. Bill Clinton would be a "fascist" to them. The fact that Bill Clinton had nothing in common with Hitler or Mussolini doesn't register with them at all.