As part of the campaign facing the epresidential lessons of November in the United Statesthe two main candidates to be in charge of the White House, Joe Bidencurrent president, and donald trumpthey simultaneously visited the border of Mexico, while seeking support on policies to confront growing migration, one of the main agenda items.
The record numbers of entries of unauthorized migrants into USA They represent one of the main problems that the current president must face as the axis of his campaign against the former Republican president.
Furthermore, on the day both leaders visited the border, a judge temporarily blocked a Texas promoted by the governor of that state, the Republican Greg Abbott, which since March allowed the detention, imprisonment or expulsion of migrants who have crossed the border through unauthorized passages and who remain in the state.
Abbott will appeal this decision, which is part of a legal dispute between the Federal and state governments for border control.
Record migration at the southern border of the United States
In 2023, more than 2.4 million migrants They crossed the southern border of USAlargely from Central America and Venezuela as they flee poverty, violence and the disasters of climate change.
The President, on his second visit to the border since arriving in White House in 2021met with border patrol and other agents, before giving a speech urging opponents to stop blocking their immigration reforms.
Republicans rejected border legislation proposed by Biden “simply because the former president (Trump) told him to,” White House deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton told reporters on Air Force One.
Trump once again puts anti-immigration policy at the forefront of his campaign
On the contrary, the former president donald trump He once again emphasized his anti-immigration stance, one of the keys that led him to the presidency in 2016. For this campaign, he promised the largest immigration program deportation ever carried out in the United States.
“Good weather, beautiful day but a very dangerous border, let’s take care of it“the favorite for the Republican presidential nomination told reporters upon landing in Eagle Pass.
The Trump campaign described the border as a “crime scene” and said that the former president “would outline his plan to put America first and secure the border immediately after taking office.”
Immigrants are “killing our people, they are killing our country”“, in increasingly far-right rhetoric that led him to say last year that immigrants were “poisoning the blood” of the United Statessaid the former president.
Source: Ambito
