Yes, despite the democrats stoutly opposing it tooth and nail, Trump scraped together funding to build the best wall he could for as much of the border that he could, unfortunately, being made on the cheap to stretch dollars, many found their way over or through it.
The fragments of border wall built during the Trump administration were physically breached more than 3,000 times between 2019 and 2021.An investigation by The Washington Post found that Customs an…
thehill.com
But had it been properly funded, it would have been built better and properly staffed, would have been way more effective in slowing down and catching or stopping people. Now, under Joe Biden, border crossings are up up up to an all time high, the highest since at least 1960.
Migrants were encountered 1.7 million times in the last 12 months, the highest number of illegal crossings recorded since at least 1960.
www.nytimes.com
And of course, the NYT tries to claim the pandemic as the cause, but the pandemic was everywhere including here and the pandemic started in Spring of 2020 but the crossing didn't soar until Biden got in with his 'come hither' invitation that now was the time.