Former President of the United States Donald Trump has accused his successor, Joe Biden, of “completely handing over” control of the border with Mexico and has assured that the decree that limits, for example, asylum applications, “will worsen the immigration invasion.” .
“Their weakness and extremism has caused an invasion on the border like we have never seen before.”Trump said in a video broadcast on social networks hours after an executive order was announced with which Biden wants to expressly penalize those who enter the United States irregularly.
For Trump, Biden is simply “pretending to finally do something,” but “it’s all for show.”, according to the magnate because the first televised debate is approaching. Both will face each other again at the polls in November, repeating the face-to-face that they already fought in 2020 and that ended in favor of the Democrat.
Trump believes that, despite the measures announced by Biden, “millions” of people will continue trying to reach the United States, since “other countries have emptied their prisons and psychiatric hospitals and sent drug traffickers, human traffickers and terrorists.”
In this sense, he has argued that “Closing the border” will be “the main priority” of his hypothetical second term, from “day one”. He has recovered his promise to erect a wall on the border with Mexico and, in addition, aspires to “return home” all “illegal immigrants.”
Trump’s message contrasts, however, with that of the UN, which fears the effects that the measures announced by Biden could have on fundamental rights and freedoms. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has expressed its “deep” concerns in a statement in which it has even called for “reconsidering restrictions that harm the fundamental right (of people) to seek asylum.”
The rule sparked criticism within his own Democratic Party and among his staunchest Republican opponents, who called it an “amnesty” measure despite the fact that it is one of the toughest immigration decisions of his mandate.
The order, which went into effect immediately, will allow US authorities to deport those who do not pass strict asylum standards when the figure of 2,500 daily arrests at the border is exceeded for an average of seven dayssomething that based on the latest figures is below the current daily crossing flow.
Most criticism came from immigrant advocates who almost in unison said that the measure echoes the strategies used by former Republican President Donald Trump (2017-2021) to close the border in 2018.
Biden attempted to depart from the measures taken by his predecessor in a speech at the White House, in which he attempted to explain that this executive order is a response to the lack of consensus for immigration reform in Congress and pursues more orderly asylum applications ( through ports of entry) and less exposed to human trafficking mafias.
”I will never demonize immigrants. I will never refer to them as a poison in the blood of our country.”he said in reference to Trump, who has declared that they are “poisoning the blood of the country,” echoing words used by Adolf Hitler.
”I will never separate families from their children at the border, I will never prohibit a group of people from entering the country because of their religious beliefs”Biden added, alluding to more policies implemented by Trump to separate families at the border or veto the entry into the United States of nationals from Muslim-majority countries.
(with information from EP and EFE)
