… out in November and December after the election that Joe Biden was asleep at the wheel and they had to be dealing with the then president elect and now president. If you look at what drove the declines before the inauguration, people will tell you they knew that Donald Trump was coming back into office. They knew he was going to take border enforcement seriously. And so they were already getting ahead of actually cutting down those illegal crossing numbers. (16:37–16:46)
CLAIM
Asserts that the anticipation of Donald Trump's presidency led to declines in illegal crossings.
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