On January 16, 2025, the center for Immigration Studies posted the beyond the border podcast, episode 187 titled why Legal Immigration Numbers Matter. You and my colleague, Representative Chip Roy, provided a detailed assessment of how U.S. census Bureau data shows that President Trump handed Joe Biden a border that was under control. In fact, the data shows that international migrant crossings were at a 20 year low in Trump's final year in office. (01:55–02:02)
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Asserts that census data indicates Trump left Biden with a controlled border.
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