What a difference a year makes.

For the first time in half a century, the United States experienced net negative migration, according to a recent report by the Brookings Institution. The reason, the report concluded, was President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policies.

“The report attributed the shift to a combination of the large drop in entries and an increase in enforcement activity leading to removals and voluntary departures,” ABC reported.

This is an important milestone as we reach the end of Trump’s first year in office. The reckless immigration policies of President Joe Biden turned the American people decidedly against immigration, both illegal and legal. Those policies would have almost certainly continued if Vice President Kamala Harris had won in 2024.

We’ve really seen an incredible turnaround. Just a few years ago, border towns were completely overrun by illegal aliens. The only defense border states had was to ship the newcomers off to northern sanctuary cities that also became entirely overwhelmed.

That’s halted entirely. The New York Times ran a story Sunday about how a migrant shelter in McAllen, Texas, which had been packed to the gills under Biden, was now practically vacant.

“We have not seen a single migrant in months,” Sister Norma Pimentel, who runs the facility, said to the Times in December. “We are completely empty.”

That’s an incredible change.

Even after their decisive defeat, Democrats have shown no loss of zeal for their open-border policies as they do everything in their power to impede the enforcement of the law in states and localities they control.

Nevertheless, the past year proves—that under the right leadership—America’s immigration laws can be enforced. It’s not impossible. We didn’t need additional legislation that did little more than put a Band-Aid on the problem and give cover to open-borders politicians. We just needed new leadership at the top.

This isn’t to say that Trump........

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