The perpetual crisis at the U.S. southern border behooves a reminder of President Donald J. Trump’s policy achievements – and an exhaustive list of actions taken over just four years – which led to one of the most secure periods of time in the region for decades.

In 2015, Trump declared “the U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.” Surely enough, those problems have come home to roost in variety of ways, be it related to infrastructure, crime, jobs, or otherwise.

Now, Trump’s opponents including candidates such as Ron DeSantis and the pro open border Koch network are attempting to undermine the former President on the issue, amongst others.

‘The Most Secure Border in History’.

Team Trump points to what they call the “most secure border in the history of the United States,” citing the government-wide end of the “catch and release” policy, which didn’t just remove illegals from the country, but also “sent a strong deterrence message that illegal aliens should not take the journey north because they will not be allowed into American communities.”

Trump also presided over a “record level of deportations,” with his team blasting the idea that Obama was the “deporter-in-chief” simply for adding the number of migrants apprehended at the border itself to the number of “deportations” – an obvious fudging of the numbers. In Trump’s first week in office, the record states, “President Trump issued EO 1376… declaring all illegal aliens a priority for removal, reversing the dangerous policy of the previous administration that exempted most illegal aliens from deportation.”

This led to removals increasing each of the first three years, with 226,119 illegals deported in fiscal year 2017, to 256,085 in fiscal year 2018, to 267,258 in fiscal year 2019. This was slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic, during which 185,884 in fiscal year 2020. This is in addition to the removal of 526,884 criminal aliens over Trump’s first term in office.

Trump’s team also cite the termination of the Flores Settlement Agreement which aided migrants using children to skirt U.S. immigration laws and thusly finding themselves eligible to remain in the United States. The same can be said of Title 42, described as “effectively seal[ing] the border,” and “den[ying] illegal aliens the opportunity to exploit the asylum system.” Title 42 was also used to stop human trafficking of illegal alien minors, with apprehensions of such cases falling to record lows of just 741 by April 2020. Since the end of Trump’s first term, these numbers have again skyrocketed, with 370,000 unaccompanied alien children being smuggled into the U.S. under Joe Biden.

The list, as previously stated, is exhaustive, and also includes moves against flight-risk asylum seekers; the imposition of DNA testing to combat fraudulent families and human trafficking; the infamous Remain in Mexico policy; and a “critical victory” in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Of the more than 71,000 illegal aliens returned to Mexico under MPP, less than 1% (641 aliens) were granted asylum by the end of President Trump’s first term.

Trump also presided over a border surge of U.S. troops under Trump, by the name of Operation Secure Line, which resulted in an extra 5,000 troops assisting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), as well as the physical installation of razor and concertina wire.

Dishonest critics allege Trump’s border wall was not good enough for the course of one term. But with 463 miles of border wall system built despite ruthless opposition by the political left, the courts, and the government itself, it is unreasonable to suggest anyone else would have come anywhere close.

Unlawful border crossings plummeted 87 percent where the wall was built. Then, along came the fix of 2020, which led to the Biden regime canceling the next tranche of work.

Streamlining deportation processes, as well as pushing more judges to the border, to hear more cases faster are another example of where Team Trump says the last administration took a wide array of unprecedented steps to restore border normality and security to America.

The moves touted also include anti-terrorism or criminality measures such as EO 13769, falsely labelled as a “Muslim ban,” by the hysterical media, as well as the notorious “extreme vetting” order.

Campaign briefings also point to the “lowest refugee settlement” every year of the Trump admin, based off EO 13769, as well as visa sanctions, social media extreme vetting, family extreme vetting, and a crack down on visa entry into the United Sates of Chinese students or academics, many of whom are used by the Chinese Communist Party as infiltrators or for espionage.

A Full List of Trump-Era Border Security and Immigration EOs/Memoranda follows: 

• Executive Order 13767, Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements (Jan. 25, 2017)
• Executive Order 13768, Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States (Jan. 25, 2017)
• Executive Order 13769, Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States (Jan. 27, 2017)
• Executive Order 13773, Enforcing Federal Law with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking” (Feb. 9, 2017)
• Executive Order 13776, Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety” (Feb. 9, 2017)
• Executive Order 13780, Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States (Mar. 16, 2017)
• Executive Order 13788, Buy American and Hire American (Apr. 18, 2017)
• Executive Order 13802, Amending Executive Order 13597 (June 21, 2017)
• Executive Order 13810, Imposing Additional Sanctions with Respect to North Korea (Sept. 21, 2017)
• Executive Order 13815, Resuming the United States Refugee Admissions Program With Enhanced Vetting Capabilities (Oct. 24, 2017)
• Executive Order 13828, Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity and Economic Mobility (Apr. 10, 2018)
• Executive Order 13841, Affording Congress an Opportunity to Address Family Separation (June 20, 2018)
• Executive Order 13880, Collecting Information About Citizenship Status in Connection with the Decennial Census (July 11, 2019)
• Executive Order 13882, Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Mali (July 26, 2019)
• Executive Order 13884, Blocking Property of the Government of Venezuela (Aug. 5, 2019)
• Executive Order 13888, Enhancing State and Local Involvement in Refugee Resettlement (Sept. 26, 2019)
• Executive Order 13894, Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Syria (Oct. 14, 2019)
• Executive Order 13902, Imposing Sanctions With Respect to Additional Sectors of Iran (Jan. 10, 2020)
• Executive Order 13928, Blocking Property of Certain Persons Associated With the International Criminal Court (June 11, 2020)
• Executive Order 13936, Hong Kong Normalization (July 14, 2020)
• Executive Order 13940, Aligning Federal Contracting and Hiring Practices With the Interests of American Workers (Aug. 3, 2020)
• Presidential Memorandum: Implementing Immediate Heighted Screening and Vetting Applications for Visas and Other Immigration Benefits, Ensuring Enforcement of All Laws for Entry into the United States, and Increasing Transparency among Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government and for the American People (Mar. 6, 2017)
• Presidential Memorandum: Optimizing the Use of Federal Government Information in Support of the National Vetting Enterprise (Feb. 6, 2018)
• Presidential Memorandum: Securing the Southern Border of the United States (Apr. 4, 2018)
• Presidential Memorandum: Ending “Catch and Release” at the Border of the United States and Directing Other Enhancements to Immigration Enforcement (Apr. 6, 2018)
• Presidential Memorandum: Additional Measures to Enhance Border Security and Restore Integrity to Our Immigration System (Apr. 29, 2019)
• Presidential Memorandum: Enforcing the Legal Responsibilities of Sponsors of Aliens (May 23, 2019)
• Presidential Memorandum: Visa Sanctions (Apr. 10, 2020)
• Presidential Memorandum: Excluding Illegal Aliens From the Apportionment Base Following the 2020 Census (July 21, 2020)
• Presidential Memorandum: Inadmissibly of Persons Affiliated with Antifa Based on Organized Criminal Activity (Jan. 5, 2021)
• Presidential Proclamation 9645, Enhancing Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry into the United States by Terrorists or Other Public-Safety Threats (Sept. 24, 2017)
• Presidential Proclamation 9723, Maintaining Enhanced Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry into the United States by Terrorists or Other Public-Safety Threats (Apr. 10, 2018)
• Presidential Proclamation 9822, Addressing Mass Migration Through the Southern Border of the United States (Nov. 9, 2018)
• Presidential Proclamation 9842, Addressing Mass Migration Through the Southern Border of the United States (Feb. 7, 2019)
• Presidential Proclamation 9844, Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States (Feb. 15, 2019)
• Presidential Proclamation 9931, Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Persons who Threaten Venezuela’s Democratic Institutions (Sept. 25, 2019)
• Presidential Proclamation 9932, Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Senior Officials of the Government of Iran (Sept. 25, 2019)
• Presidential Proclamation 9945, Suspension of Entry of Immigrants Who Will Financially Burden the United States Healthcare System (Oct. 4, 2019)
• Presidential Proclamation 9983, Improving Enhanced Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry (Jan. 31, 2020)
• Presidential Proclamation 9984, Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Persons who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus (Jan. 31, 2020)
• Presidential Proclamation 9982, Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Certain Additional Persons Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus (Feb. 29, 2020)
• Presidential Proclamation 9993, Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Persons who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus (Mar. 11, 2020)
• Presidential Proclamation 10014, Suspending Entry of Immigrants of Who Present Risk to the U.S. Labor Market During the Economic Recovery Following the COVID-19 Outbreak (Apr. 22, 2020)
• Presidential Proclamation 10041, Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Certain Additional Persons who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus (May 24, 2020)
• Presidential Proclamation 10043, Suspension of Entry as Nonimmigrants of Certain Students and Researches from the People’s Republic of China (May 29, 2020)
• Presidential Proclamation 10052, Suspending Entry of Aliens Who Present a Risk to the U.S. Labor Market Following the Coronavirus Outbreak (June 22, 2020)