‘All We Really Needed Was a New President’
Fixing immigration didn’t require legislation but enforcement of existing laws.
It was the mic drop of all mic drops.
In President Donald Trump’s address to Congress Tuesday night, he talked quite a bit about his signature issue of immigration, touching on everything from the number of illegal border crossings to designating a Venezuelan gang a terrorist organization to the very personal losses felt by the families of Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray.
Then he let the Left have it:
Since taking office, my administration has launched the most sweeping border and immigration crackdown in American history, and we quickly achieved the lowest numbers of illegal border crossers ever recorded. Thank you. The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying, ‘We needed new legislation. We must have legislation to secure the border.’ But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president.“
Democrats had no response but their pathetic little placards.
Let’s examine two facets of Trump’s message: what he has done in his first six weeks and what Democrats wanted Republicans to do last year.
We’ll start with the latter. You may recall the legislation Trump referenced. It was the bad border bargain of January 2024. The goal was to put a fig leaf of credibility on Joe Biden’s supposed efforts to "secure” the border with what amounted to statistical games.
Biden flung the border open wide when he entered office, rescinding or otherwise undoing everything Trump had done to secure the border in his first term. He so broadened the definition of asylum that it became meaningless, and his team built a mobile app that the editors of National Review note “literally guided potential crossers in evading the law while appearing to comply with it.”
The predictable result was an intentional invasion that led to a deadly humanitarian crisis at the border and even in the heartland.
Biden then pretended there was nothing he could do about it because those darn congressional Republicans stood in the way of legislation to fix it. He and his border czar, Kamala Harris, even had the gall to blame Trump for the crisis because he called out the legislation. Voters didn’t buy it in November.
Yet Democrats are still peddling that myth. Biden’s allies, the Democrat mayors of sanctuary cities, aided and abetted the lawlessness. The mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York were hauled before Congress yesterday to answer for what they’ve done. Eric Adams of New York is another story, but the three others bear some responsibility for the crisis, and they still defended themselves to Congress.
In that hearing, Democrat Representative Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico launched a profane tirade in which she tried to throw last year’s legislation in Trump’s face again. “Here we are, Donald Trump, where’s your immigration bill?” she asked. “Oh wait, you don’t have one, that’s right.”
He doesn’t need one, and I’m inclined to use her own term to describe her assertion: It’s [barnyard scatological vulgarity].
Even before taking office again, Trump tapped Tom Homan as his border czar, and Homan quickly began communicating the coming policy changes. The short message: Don’t even think about coming, or you’ll be deported.
Speaking of Homan, he was on fire last night on Fox News, putting to bed the Democrats’ ridiculous and false assertions about illegals and crime. “For the congressmen who keep saying [illegals] commit less crime than Americans — who cares?” Homan thundered. “Every crime committed … every child raped … every public safety threat … could’ve been prevented because they’re not supposed to be here!”
TOM HOMAN IS ON FIRE 🔥
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 6, 2025
“For the congressmen who keep saying they [illegals] commit less crime than Americans— who cares?! Every crime committed… every child raped… every public safety threat… could’ve been prevented because THEY’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE!!!” pic.twitter.com/7KjofjDaQZ
Indeed, the new sheriff at the border set to work immediately, deporting criminals, turning away bogus asylum seekers, challenging birthright citizenship (a case he may win), designating cartels and gangs terrorist organizations, and sending every possible message that the border is closed to illegal crossers.
In six short weeks, we’ve reached record low numbers of border crossings:
February 2022 — 166,010
February 2023 — 156,630
February 2024 — 189,913
February 2025 — 8,326
That’s astonishing. And it didn’t require legislation; it required a new president.
“The Invasion of our Country is OVER,” Trump posted on Truth Social Saturday. And despite Leftmedia attempts to retroactively credit Biden for starting to reduce numbers in 2024, Trump is right — it’s “thanks to the Trump Administration Policies.”
