Surging migration to red states has been a secular trend for the last 60 years regardless of who is in power. Framing this is a Republican vs. Democrat development is misleading at best since both parties support some degree of mass migration.

For example, Republicans like Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush presided over the passage of amnesty and the 1990 Immigration Act, respectively.

The border closing is good but not revolutionary whatsoever. You can have closed border for multiple decades and the U.S.’s demographics will continue to deteriorate through legal migration and other pathways such as air and boat travel. Any immigration reforms that don’t involve a multi-decade immigration moratorium and a thorough crackdown on all forms of immigration are simply not going to cut it. It’s time to stop praising politicians for taking mediocre action that should have taken in the 1990s.

Trump presidency is a rearguard action, and that’s being generous, at best. The immigration battle was lost when Pat Buchanan was not elected as president in the 1990s.