Guys, we will see what happens. You have to understand that Trump is a person who believes in acting like he accomplished something when he didn't. If we look back at this point later and are able to point to data that says what just happened had a lasting effect on the illegal immigration thing then we can say yes what he did worked.
But you need only look at the "Art of the Deal Book" to see how he thinks. You can access the full text at
https://archive.org/stream/TrumpDonaldT ... l_djvu.txt. You can do a "find" on dirt and find the part where he scammed Holiday Inn people by having construction people move dirt around to make it look like something was going on when nothing was really going on.
Also you can do a "find" on "want to believe" to see him saying he'll exaggerate in order to take advantage of what people want to believe.
I've already heard people, with Buttigieg being one of them, say that nothing much really happened with Mexico. Buttigieg said it was just a face saving exercise. Trump didn't really get much but needed to act like he did so he could back down on the tariffs. I saw a talking head claim that just about everything annoucned is stuff Mexico had already said it would do months ago.
Are they correct? I don't know. But I also won't think Trump really accomplished anything unless and until I see some evidence of an effect.
BTW even if the data end up suggesting what he did had the effect he wanted I will continue to think it was wrong for Trump to use a tariff threat like that to pressure another sovereign nation with respect to what it does with its southern border.