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Trump had squeezed the torrent down into a trickle.

Not really.

In the last pre-pandemic year, the torrent was very much a torrent. 474K family unit members, and 300K single adults:

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migra...

What he was able to do in 2020 is use health regulations as a barrier to immigrant entry. That was the Title 42 program. He was basically able to exclude migrants as potential carriers of COVID.

That's not a sustainable option - the COVID emergency is over, and SCOTUS precedent on the use of generalized health provisions to try to expand federal power make it impossible to do anything like that again.

If you think Trump actually has the ability to solve this problem if he's elected, you're going to be sorely disappointed if that comes to pass....

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