EN: Migration Expert: No New Laws Needed, Just Political Will

Originally published on Bulletin

The illegal immigration numbers during Donald Trump’s first six months as president are staggering. During the Biden administration, 10,000 people crossed the U.S. southern border illegally every day. In June this year, the figure was down to 6,000—for an entire month.

”That’s a decrease of 94 to 95 percent. And absolutely no one who came here illegally has been released into the country in the past two months,” Kristen Ziccarelli told Bulletin.

Kristen Ziccarelli is Director of Global Coalitions and Senior Policy Analyst for Homeland Security and Immigration at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI). She has followed Trump’s migration policy since 2021 and sees clear lessons for Europe.

According to Kristen Ziccarelli, the success is not about new laws but about political will.

”We didn’t need new laws to secure the border. We just needed a president with the will to enforce the laws on the books and to have the right posturing to talk about sovereignty and actually enforce the law,” she said.

Trump has implemented mass deportations, ended Biden’s programs for granting residence permits to illegals, classified Latin American drug cartels as terrorist organizations, and resumed border wall construction.

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