NYPD South Precinct officers arrested two unidentified migrants, residents of the Row Hotel, on Eighth Avenue between 44th and 45th Streets in Midtown Manhattan on Friday, February 14, 2025. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post

For decades, Congress and a parade of presidents couldn’t agree on how to secure the southern border and what to do with the millions of illegal immigrants already here.

Recall that in 2007, just six years after the terrorist attack of 9/11, President George W. Bush declared that “family values did not stop at the Rio Grande River and that people are coming here to put food on the table, and they’re doing jobs Americans are not doing.”

He added, “People are coming to work, and many of them have no lawful way to come to America, and so they’re sneaking in.”

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