President Donald Trump’s promise to enforce immigration law and establish border security played a large part in his 2016 election victory. As a political outsider, Trump was in a unique position to shake up the immigration conversation within the GOP and for the rest of the country. But despite his promise to “build a wall” and escalate deportations of illegal aliens (the proper legal term) within the United States, the U.S.-Mexico border is more ineffective, porous, and problematic than it has been in decades- perhaps ever.
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