EAGLE PASS, Texas—Vice President JD Vance visited Shelby Park at the Mexican border on Wednesday to tout the plummeting number of illegal immigrants crossing into the country under the Trump administration.
With the municipal park—known as the epicenter of illegal immigration in Texas—as his backdrop, Vance said the country saw millions of illegal immigrants and a record increase in crime committed by those staying in the country unlawfully under the Biden administration.
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott seized the park from federal authorities last year in a showdown with the Biden administration after thousands of illegal immigrants were processed there by federal agents….