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Trump is planning a border crackdown. Biden already started one.

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President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to clamp down on migrant crossings at the southern border by quickly restoring the policies of his first term.

Trump will appoint former ICE acting director Tom Homan to be a White House senior official with authority over the country’s land and maritime borders.

Homan , a former Border Patrol agent who became an ICE official, led the agency during the first 18 months of Trump 's term.

Remain in Mexico was essentially replaced by a policy issued under Title 42 that allowed U.S. border officials to expel asylum seekers to Mexico or their home countries without providing due process.

Biden initially kept the policy in place but granted far more exceptions, swelling the asylum backlog.

The number of illegal crossings along the Mexico border soared to 2 million per year between 2021 and 2023 , an all-time high.