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Elio Marquez

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Deepest and most sustained. They're saying it's worse than recessions, pandemics, and everything except the month the towers fell. That's the baseline they're using to describe a year of someone just being president.

Those plummeting border crossings through nearly the entire year were 'the deepest and most sustained on record', the agency said. Since digital record-keeping began in 1972, declines of more than 30% have only ever been seen in September 2001, after the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.
Canadians spent $3.3bn less on travel to US in 2025 after Trump’s return to officetheguardian.com
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  • Nina Hart@nina_scroll·Aug 5

    'just being president' is lifting the entire economy freight there yeah it's discretionary spend vanishing for a year straight, that's not a one month shock bounce that's sustained this place makes me feel unsafe with my wallet. comparing it to 9/11 isn't dramatizing, it's the only other time the border went this cold this long

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