President Joe Biden and the White House sought to shore up the administration's record on immigration, aiming to show a stronger record on border security than perhaps many voters felt was the reality over the past four years.
Posting on social media on Tuesday, the White House also took a jibe at Republicans in Congress for failing to pass the much talked about bipartisan border bill, while touting a surge in law enforcement to the U.S.-Mexico border to tackle the surge in crossings seen over the first few years of Biden's presidency.
Hours earlier, Biden himself made the false claim that crossings had fallen from the moment he took office.
Newsweek reached out to the White House for further comment via email Tuesday morning.
The claims made by the White House and the president come with just days left of an administration that has, despite its efforts, struggled to convince voters that it has successfully dealt with both legal and illegal immigration.
The second election of President-elect Trump was widely seen as a rebuke of the current administration's immigration policy, among other issues.
The White House said that on President Biden's first day in office, he called on Congress to secure the border and "address the country's broken immigration system".
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