First 100 Days: Presidents can do a lot, for a little while

President Trump marked his first 100 days back in office last week. Some of his more notable immigration successes are also reminders that Congress must act to accomplish lasting change.

CBS News reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez describes the “seismic change at the U.S.-Mexico border“:

“The apprehensions reported in February, March and April are the lowest tallies recorded by the Border Patrol in its public monthly dataset, which stretches back to fiscal year 2000. The last time Border Patrol averaged fewer than 9,000 monthly apprehensions along the southern border over a year was in the late 1960s, according to historical agency figures.”

The world is a safer place now that the crisis at the border is over.

Fewer people are risking their lives through the dangerous Darien Gap. Fewer children are arriving unaccompanied. Will it last?

Pres. Trump ended the border crisis just as quickly as Pres. Biden started it. And that’s the lesson. If Congress doesn’t act, we could find ourselves in the midst of another illegal immigration surge in just a couple of years.

Biden rolled back Trump’s policies; Trump rolled back Biden’s; a future administration can roll back Trump’s again. Trump ended Biden’s programs to parole inadmissible aliens into the country on day one. But Congress will have to permanently close that loophole through legislation like the Secure the Border Act that passed the House in the last Congress but was never taken up by the Senate.

Congress has introduced several Great Immigration Solutions bills to stop rewarding illegal immigration, as well as reforming long standing legal immigration programs that aren’t in the national interest.

See our Six Great Immigration Solutions.