President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are both heading to the Southern border on Thursday. The competing trips come as record illegal crossings roil the 2024 election. NTD spoke to Andrew Arthur, a fellow in law and policy at the Centre for Immigration Studies and a former immigration judge, to find out more about their visits—and the long-term ramifications of the border crisis.
He says the effects of releasing 3.3 million illegal immigrants into the United States—what he called “a state-sized population”—will be felt for at least a decade even if it were to stop tomorrow.
