Gov. Greg Abbott ( R- TX ) harshly criticized the Biden administration over its recent executive action on border security, accusing it of “gaslighting” Americans.
President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that the White House would impose a moratorium on illegal immigrants from seeking asylum in the country. This would continue to apply as long as the Border Patrol‘s typical seven-day arrest rate is above 2,500 per day. Abbott claimed that this order does not provide any security to the southern border and that nothing can stop people from crossing it improperly.
All this fresh Biden plan will do is actually get and encourage even more people to cross the boundary improperly, Abbott said on Fox News ‘ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. ” And you’ve seen on video, ever since the Biden get went into place, there’s no slowing down of individuals crossing the border. In fact, it is only moving faster, and this is gasping our friend Americans when Biden rises and says this will stop people from crossing the border when he claims it will secure the border. In fact, it is making the border illegal crossings worse” . ,
The governor of Texas added that the Biden administration has allowed” known thieves” to enter the country. In response to these thieves being permitted into the United States, Texas law enforcement did “go after” them within the state.
Abbott added that he has spoken with former president Donald Trump about what can be done to secure the borders if he wins the 2024 election, including restoring Trump’s laws. His” Remain in Mexico” policy would be one of these measures, along with a repeal of the country’s” catch and release” of illegal immigrants, and the start of the U.S. border wall construction.
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Between 117, 000 and 122, 000 refugees were apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents along the southern boundary in May, according to internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection information that was leaked to the Washington Examiner. The number is down from more than 128, 000 in April and almost 250, 000 in December 2023.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was quizzed on Sunday about the schedule of Biden’s senior get on the frontier, and precisely why the Trump administration waited weeks after a bipartisan deal in the Senate failed to resolve the issue. Mayorkas claimed that the administration chose to take its own activity in the wake of this bipartisan agreement after it had twice been rejected.
