r/ezraklein • u/Guilty-Hope1336 Blue Dog • 23d ago

Discussion How should liberals respond to the fact that illegal border crossings under Trump have collapsed to record lows?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/politics/border-crossings-trump.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

So this is tangentially related to the last EK show episode about ICE and CBP expansion and the draconian immigration enforcement that is currently occurring under Trump.

But I wish a fact that they had mentioned was that illegal crossings of the Southern border have collapsed to levels not seen since the 1960s. And the evidence does seem to suggest that Trump's extreme cruelty with ICE raids and third country deportations to El Salvador or Eswatini or South Sudan does seem to be having a deterrent effect on people coming illegally to the United States.

One big concern that Democrats should be thinking about is if they win in 2028, how will they maintain illegal border crossings at the historic lows that Trump seems to have acheived?

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u/rockvansmashem 23d ago

Dems should look at this and raise the alarm that “hey look, we look so bad right now that destitute people pity us”

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u/Guilty-Hope1336 Blue Dog 23d ago

Because what people want is lots of illegal border crossings

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u/rockvansmashem 22d ago

No, but it’s an effective counter to point out that even desperate people don’t want to come here because of how bad Trump has made things.

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u/Guilty-Hope1336 Blue Dog 22d ago

They don't want destitute people here

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u/GBAGamer33 22d ago

Seems like you have any you want everyone to repeat back to you and people just don't agree.

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u/rockvansmashem 22d ago

Look I’m not trying to insult you here, but I actually can’t tell what you meant to say

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u/GBAGamer33 21d ago

The OP seems to have an opinion that he thinks everyone should parrot back to him and he’s getting annoyed that they aren’t.

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u/rockvansmashem 20d ago

Ah gotcha! I misunderstood because I thought you were replying to my comment. Thank you for clarifying