Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha slammed caravans of migrants rushing the border, warning that President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration enforcement leaves little chance of successfully crossing into the country.
Concha argued that while Democrats control the House of Representatives and the Senate after the midterm elections, Donald Trump remains the president.
“At last check, the guy still in the White House is Donald Trump,” Concha said on Fox Business’s The Evening Edit Thursday.
Concha maintained that border czar Tom Homan and the Trump administration are “as serious as a prison fight” when it comes to enforcing immigration laws.
One group of roughly 2,000 people are headed to the U.S. after leaving Mexico’s city of Tapachula over the weekend.
“You better take [Homan] at his word based on what we’ve seen over the last two years, where not one illegal who has tried to enter this country has been released into the United States,” Concha said.
Trump addressed the caravans in a Truth Social post on Thursday, threatening to double tariffs on Mexico if the country failed to stop them.
The “INVASION of our Country is taking place again. Huge CARAVANS are forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico. Many of the people in these Caravans are those that various countries don’t want – ‘Send them to America,’ they say – But they will not be accepted! MEXICO MUST STOP THEM, NOW, and if they do not do so, the Tariffs on Mexico will be IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED,” Trump said.
“For now, it’s a fool’s errand to try to rush our border, but in ‘28 that may be a different story,” Concha said.
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Concha also questioned whether the country could see a return to the historic levels of illegal immigration recorded during the Biden administration from 2021 to 2023, when the illegal immigrant population reached an estimated 14 million in 2023.
“I guess the question is: If Democrats take back the White House in 2028, will we see a repeat of what we saw during the autopen administration?” Concha said.
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