During an episode of Morning Joe this week, former Obama Administration official Steve Rattner admitted that President-elect Donald Trump was “not wrong” about the border while analyzing a chart of illegal border crossings under the Biden Administration.
“The border was not Biden’s finest moment, frankly. You can see what happened here and Trump is not wrong when he talks about how border crossings were quite low,” Rattner told MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire. “They were running about 74,000 a month when he left office. And they, in fact, did shoot up. Some of it was some things Biden said and some ways that they put a moratorium, for example, on deportations.”
“But in fact, we did get up here almost to 300,000 a month,” Rattner continued. “But what maybe people don’t entirely know is that border crossings have come back down almost to where they were under Trump. They’re running at about 100,000 at the moment. So we went up the hill and we went down the hill. But unfortunately, that was pretty costly.”
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to undertake the largest mass deportation effort in U.S. history, starting with illegal immigrants who are violent criminals.
Donald Trump Jr. shared the Morning Joeclip on X, saying “So 4 years later, when the obvious can no longer hurt democrats, they tell us the truth. Trump was right again.”
Watch the clip below:
So 4 years later, when the obvious can no longer hurt democrats, they tell us the truth.
Trump was right again. https://t.co/447LkzB7Wr— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 3, 2025
During Trump’s 2024 campaign, he highlighted the dangers of the Biden Administration’s open border policies by spotlighting the murders of Rachel Morin, Laken Riley, and Jocelyn Nungaray.
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