By The newspaper
Feb 29, 2024, 17:42 PM EST
The former president and Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, traveled this Thursday to the United States border with Mexico, from where he sent a harsh message in which he called immigrants who cross the border crossing “terrorists” and blamed President Joe Biden for an “invasion.”
“He is a terrible president. He’s probably the most incompetent we’ve ever had. He is allowing thousands of people to enter from China, Iran, Yemen, Congo, Syria and many other nations. “The United States is being invaded by Biden’s migrant crime,” Trump said of Biden from Eagle Pass, Texas.
During fiscal year 2023, more than 2.4 million migrant arrests were recorded on Mexico’s southern border, according to the EFE agency, a record number.
“It could reach 18 million by the time he leaves office. Fortunately, the greatest risk we have is nine months. It’s a long time. Many bad things can happen. (…) What he has done with our country is destroy it,” added the former president without supporting his warnings with data.
And he assured that these migrants “come from prisons, from mental institutions (…) and they are terrorists. They are being allowed to enter our country. And that’s horrible.”
Likewise, the Republican candidate highlighted his tough approach to migrants in his management as president.
“When someone violated the law, we captured them and deported them. We did a great job. And then there was an election (…) and from that moment on a lot of bad things started to happen. The situation changed in Texas and everywhere,” he said.
They bring “medical problems”
This same week Trump had promised on his social network, Truth Social, that if he is re-elected he will carry out “the largest deportation of illegal criminals in the history of the United States.”
On this occasion, on the ground, he also warned of the practical problems posed by the arrival of a large flow of immigrants.
“We don’t have anyone who speaks those languages. They are really foreign languages. Nobody speaks them. And they are coming to our country and bringing tremendous problems, including medical problems,” he insisted.
Trump was accompanied by the governor of Texas, fellow Republican Greg Abbott.
The latter is responsible for the installation of a buoy barrier in the Rio Grande against the entry of immigrants and also for the fact that his state has taken control of the Shelby municipal park, preventing the Border Patrol from processing newly arrived migrants in this place. .
Both the former conservative president and the current tenant of the White House are the favorites to get their party’s nomination for the November elections, which would repeat the electoral duel that faced them in 2020 and that ended in the hands of the Democrat.
With information from EFE.
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