As Inauguration Day nears, itтАЩs clear that President-elect Trump believes he has a mandate to enact the largest deportation in U.S. history. What happens next could forever alter what it means to be an American.
Immigration under President Joe Biden surged to levels unmatched in more than a century тАФ an estimated net increase of 8 million migrants during his four years in office, with a majority crossing illegally, according to a Goldman Sachs report.
Biden was determined to reverse the harsh Trump 1.0 policies that limited both legal and illegal immigration. But Biden never framed this important issue for average Americans. There never was a “Biden doctrineтАЭ to help the nation understand why he believed more immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers could prove a net benefit тАФ or sufficient federal aid to help cities and states deal with the consequences. Finally, after Trump killed a bipartisan immigration reform bill, Biden unilaterally re-imposed tighter limits on the southern border тАФ but it was too late to save his candidacy or that of Kamala Harris.
