A former Obama administration official said Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump “is not wrong” about the massive spike in illegal immigration under President Joe Biden.
Steven Rattner, who served as counselor to the Treasury secretary under then-President Barack Obama, made the assertion on MSNBC, where he contributes as an economic analyst. Rattner was reviewing “the year in charts” that he had first written in a guest essay for The New York Times.
“The border was not Biden’s finest moment, frankly,” Rattner began, pointing to a chart that showed a spike in illegal crossings in 2021, as soon as Biden took office. “You can see what happened here. And Trump is not wrong when he talks about how border crossings were quite low. They’re running about 74,000 a month when he left office and they, in fact, did shoot up.
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