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President Biden gave only the briefest of mentions Tuesday to the chaos at the southern border, acknowledging “problems” but saying his policies have finally begun to eat into record numbers of migrants coming from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela.
He did ask lawmakers to find agreement on plans to legalize illegal immigrants, and particularly “Dreamers,” the young adult illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.
“Let’s also come together on immigration and make it a bipartisan issue once again,” the president said in his State of the Union address.
He took a quick victory lap on the border, saying there are now “a record number of personnel working to secure the border.
