America’s Borders Aren't More Secure than Ever

According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Data, in 2019 fiscal, 977,509 people were apprehended at the United States' Southwestern border. This is the highest number of people apprehended at the border since 2007. The Pew Research Center noted that the highest number of apprehensions recorded was in 2000 at 1,643,679 and regularly exceeded 1 million per fiscal year during the 1980s and 1990s.

The high number of people at the border has overwhelmed border facilities under the Trump administration. According to Politico, processing centers at the border are filled to capacity, border agents are struggling to meet medical needs, and thousands of migrant families are crammed into a detention system that was not built to house them. This indicates that Trump's harsher prosecutions, new controls on asylum, and harsher detention policies did not deter people from entering the United States. Trump's other aggressive policies intended to deter migrants from journeying to the United States, including separating families, limiting entries at official ports, and requiring some asylum seekers to wait in Mexico through the duration of their immigration cases, did not prove as successful as intended.
After Misbar’s comparison based on the number of people apprehended at the border and the number of people detained and detained from the country, we conclude that Trump's assertion that America's borders are more secure than ever before is false.