Obama claims Trump 'did not solve' immigration 'problem.' The numbers tell a different story
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Former President Obama claimed that former President Trump "did not solve" the immigration problem, but the numbers show illegal immigration got worse under President Biden.
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At a rally for the Harris-Walz ticket, Obama acknowledged that "immigration is a real issue at our borders." But he pushed back on criticism of Harris for neglecting to address rampant illegal immigration in her four years as vice president and claimed that Trump's promise to start "the largest mass deportation in the history of our country" isn't a real plan.
"Wasn't Donald Trump president for four years?" Obama said. "Wasn't he in charge before you? If rounding up and deporting millions of desperate people, many of them who are women and children, if that's the answer to everything, why is it that the number of undocumented immigrants basically stayed the same when he left office?"
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