And that crackdown produced an almost immediate and dramatic decrease in the number of border crossings. If that's the right answer now, why didn't your administration take those steps in 2021? The first bill we proposed to Congress was to fix our broken immigration system. knowing that if you want to actually fix it, we need Congress to act. It was not taken up. (08:44–08:49)
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