Donald Trump has accepted the invitation of the Governor of Texas, the Republican Greg Abbott, to visit the southern border of the United States on the 30th, while migratory pressure grows steadily since last January, when the transfer of powers took place in Washington.
In May alone, the US Border Patrol detained more than 180,000 illegal immigrants trying to cross from Mexico, the highest number in the last 21 years. Of these, some 33,000 are unaccompanied minors. In addition, more than 51,000 assailants were detected, but not captured. Of those arrested, some 112,000 were returned immediately, thanks to the exceptional prerogatives granted by Title 42, the measure imposed by the previous Administration to close the border to “non-essential” travel, which, among other restrictions, prevents anyone who has transited through almost any country in the Schengen area during the previous 14 days from entering the United States, except in cases exceptional.
The rule, in force since March 2020, remained active during the electoral campaign, the elections of last November and the turbulent period that followed in which the reliability of the US electoral process was questioned.
Legislative changes and call effect
Precisely during that period, the Democratic Party and its media terminals made border control an element of discord, with the wall as the main argument, and marked a position that was directly opposed to the Republican one, with the consequent calling effect, materialized every month. .
In the normative, Joe BidenIn addition to signing almost fifty Executive Orders shortly after taking office, it revoked, suspended or partially rescinded numerous actions approved by the previous Executive to stop the flow of illegal aliens.
The current Administration has exempted from the influence of Title 42 unaccompanied minors and numerous family unitswhile single adults are still subject to immediate expulsion. Thus, there is an unprecedented increase in recidivism in assaults. During the past month, 38% of those arrested were people who had tried at least one other time in the previous 12 months. The proportion is usually around 15%.
Faced with the now officially recognized migration crisis, Kamala Harris, responsible for its management, was forced to literally and energetically discourage all Central Americans with the idea of crossing Mexico to the United States, during her recent official trip to Guatemala.
When Trump confirmed the date of his trip, he referred to what happens at the border as “a serious and deliberate breach of duty.” “The Biden Administration inherited from me the strongest, safest border in the history of the United States and in a few weeks they turned it into the worst border crisis in the history of the United States,” he added.
The former president has repeatedly denounced, and without sparing qualifications, the current tenants of the White House for their management of immigration issues: “Biden and Harris have turned over control of our border to cartels, criminals and coyotes”.
Florida will send security agents
In parallel, the governor of Florida, the Republican Ron DeSantis, has announced that his State would send its own agents to Texas and Arizona to fight in the front line what it has described as “created crisis”, whose effects, among others, have caused an increase in criminal activity in Florida.
DeSantis’s announcement came a few weeks after the governors of the aforementioned border states sent a Joint letter to the other 48 members of the Union requesting additional troops to enforce the law and help patrol the border with Mexico.
During the announcement, DeSantis noted that Florida is the first state to respond: “We are here today because we have problems in Florida that we have been forced to resolve for many years, particularly in the past six months, due to the failure of the Biden Administration to secure our southern border. “
“Leader of the opposition”
The visit of Donald Trump to the border with Mexico, before those of Biden and Harris, and in the midst of the greatest migratory crisis in recent decades, added to the campaign of rallies that will begin soon, suppose the presence of a leader of the de facto opposition in the United States. An unknown figure, alien to his political system, joined by the governors of Texas and Florida, the two most prosperous states in the country, containment dams for the decisions taken in Washington and, especially DeSantis, possible companions of the former president in a hypothetical republican candidacy for the elections of 2024.
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