{"id":259939,"date":"2025-03-16T09:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T09:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/how-trumps-crackdown-is-drastically-driving-down-migration\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T09:43:09","slug":"how-trumps-crackdown-is-drastically-driving-down-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/how-trumps-crackdown-is-drastically-driving-down-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"How Trump\u2019s Crackdown Is Drastically Driving Down Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border are down to their lowest level in decades. Once-crowded migrant shelters are empty. Instead of heading north, people stranded in Mexico are starting to return home in bigger numbers.<\/p>\n

The border is almost unrecognizable from just a couple of years ago, when hundreds of thousands of people from around the world were crossing into the United States every month in scenes of chaos and upheaval<\/a>.<\/p>\n

President Joseph R. Biden Jr., facing a swell of public outrage during the 2024 election campaign, clamped down on asylum seekers and pushed Mexico to keep migrants at bay. By the end of his term, the border had quieted significantly and illegal crossings had fallen to the lowest levels of his presidency.<\/p>\n

Now, Mr. Trump has choked off the flow of migrants even more drastically, solidifying a sweeping turn in U.S. policy with measures that many critics, especially those on the left, have long considered politically unpalatable, legally untenable and ultimately ineffective because they don\u2019t tackle the root causes of migration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n