Illegal border crossing INCREASED under Donald Trump. When immigrants are allowed to come in legally, through a port of entry, the government has their names, addresses, phone numbers, and can find them.
When Trump closed the legal ports of entry, illegal crossings spiked, and you have NO INFORMATION on anyone coming into the country. Really fucking dumb of Trump to do that.
When Trump stopped allowing people in legally, he gave the coyotes, the smugglers and human traffickers a whole new lease on life. The only way immigrants could cross the border was illegally, and suddenly these guys had all the business they could want.
Trump's Southern Border strategy was an abject failure. He dismantled all immigration services, immigration courts, and the social network set up on the Southern Border to assist immigrants. Instead, people continued to pour across the Southern Border but there was nothing to assist them other than to put them in camps.
Trump's deportation numbers were abyssmally low because there were no courts left to order the deportations.
But keep telling us what a great job Trump did at the Southern Border. 3 years later, you still haven't restored the functioning there.