‘You become a victim of your own success’: Trump’s unlikely gift to Democrats was securing the border and defusing the issue
In a 2025 investigation, The New York Times reported that officials in President Joe Biden’s administration, in the wake of Biden’s 2020 election win, had viewed rising immigration as “a distraction” best ignored so that the administration could concentrate political resources on more important economic matters. Scott Shuchart, a Biden appointee who joined the Immigration…