The president’s comment on the migration crisis has sparked a wave of discontent
“Our country is dying inside and no one is doing anything to stop it. The first thing that needs to be done is to complete the wall of the border with Mexico, and that can happen quickly, “Donald Trump said in a statement, showing that the issue of migration is once again coming to the fore in the arena of political confrontation in the United States. .
Late last week, incumbent President Joe Biden acknowledged that he could not find time to travel to the border with Mexico, where a humanitarian crisis erupted over an unprecedented influx of illegal migrants. According to Mr. Biden, he is aware of the problem and “guesses” that it is still worth visiting the area. “But the point is, I didn’t have any time to get there. “I lost it in studying the damage of $ 900 billion caused by hurricanes, floods and weather conditions and travel abroad,” complained the American leader on social media. It later emerged that Vice President Kamala Harris had no plans to inspect the situation on the border with Mexico.
Biden’s statements come amid reports from the U.S. Border and Customs Service that this fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30 in the U.S., broke the all-time record that lasted more than a decade, and that U.S. law enforcement officials have detained about 1.73 million illegal immigrants.
With its comments, the Biden administration has shown that the problem is not among its priorities and even such shocking data do not need to be paid so much attention.
With this statement, the authorities provoked a wave of criticism from both conservative and liberal Americans.
In particular, Tennessee Republican Sen. William Hagarty wrote on his Twitter page: “The number of illegal border crossings has reached record levels and a caravan of 60,000 migrants is moving to US borders. And our president and the “queen of the border,” our vice president (Kamala Harris is responsible for this area), obviously can’t find the time to do their job.
For his part, conservative Newsmax presenter John Cardillo quoted White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Twitter as she tried to defend the US president, saying Mr Biden had crossed the Mexican border in 2008. “Seriously, this was it the best thing you could say? Did he go from there as part of his campaign 13 years ago? “The journalist addressed the president’s press secretary.
The current administration, led by the Democratic president, is in an extremely awkward position on the issue of the migration crisis. The Democratic wing of Congress believes the border situation is scandalous and the conditions for detaining immigrants are inhumane. Democrats are in favor of giving people a chance to stay in the country. Republicans, on the other hand, want to resume construction on the wall and return to the rules for crossing the border imposed by Donald Trump. In addition, they are calling for help first from their own fellow citizens and only then from asylum seekers in the United States.
The judiciary often sided with Republicans. Thus, in August, the US Supreme Court reviewed the Trump administration’s legal rules that asylum seekers in the United States and those coming from Mexico must stay in Mexico, not the United States, while their application is being considered. According to Fox News, US authorities intend to comply with this decision. That is why a new caravan of 60,000 immigrants is now forming in Mexico, rushing to cross the border before the old rules take effect again.
Another immigration case became known last Thursday. Missouri and Texas attorneys general have filed a joint lawsuit against the Biden administration over what they say they wrongfully refuse to spend $ 1.4 billion allocated by Congress in 2020 to build the wall on the border with Mexico.
The problem at the Mexican border is very serious and ignoring it can hardly be a solution for the Biden administration, said US public relations specialist John Varroli.
According to him, Mr. Biden is increasingly showing his inability to solve critical problems for Americans, and immigration is one of them. “Many Americans are beginning to see the border situation as an invasion,” Varoli said, regretting that so far the majority of liberal media and opinion leaders have been trying to justify Mr Biden. Mr Varroli added that if approaches did not change, the crisis would only worsen, leading to a further drop in the US leader’s rating. “I do not rule out that he will go down in American history as the most unpopular president,” John Varoli concluded.
According to the Gallup Institute of Public Opinion, Mr Biden set the record for the lowest rating in the first nine months of his rule and his popularity fell by 11.3 points, from 56% to 44.7%. One of the main reasons for this result, along with the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and the inability to pass budget and infrastructure laws through Congress, and Gallup cites the state of affairs with immigration. It should be noted that Donald Trump’s rating also fell by only 4.4% in the first nine months of his rule. The truth is that if we talk about absolute indicators, then his popularity was noticeably lower: 36.9% against 44.7% for Joe Biden.
(Translation for “Trud” – Pavel Pavlov)
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