President Joe Biden was slammed on social media Thursday after he claimed the blame for the continuing border disaster rests with conservatives, who he mentioned didn’t go the “hardest border enforcement in historical past.”
Biden posted on X on Thursday night, blaming former President Donald Trump and Republicans partially for rejecting laws to handle the border disaster. The president’s deal with unlawful immigration comes months earlier than the 2024 election, and voters have prompt that unlawful immigration would be the largest concern that can decide their vote.
“Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican allies do not care about securing the border or fixing America’s damaged immigration system,” the president wrote. “In the event that they did, they’d be supporting the hardest border enforcement in historical past. As a substitute, they put partisan politics forward of our nationwide safety.”
Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican allies do not care about securing the border or fixing America’s damaged immigration system.
In the event that they did, they’d be supporting the hardest border enforcement in historical past.
As a substitute, they put partisan politics forward of our nationwide safety.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 24, 2024
Republicans and political commentators had been fast to level out on social media that Biden had scrapped Trump’s robust border insurance policies and diverted funding from constructing a wall alongside the southern border. Fox Information reporter Invoice Melugin mentioned the president may take instant government motion to reinstate Trump-era emergency declarations and deal with the unlawful immigration disaster.
“One government motion that Biden may take is to reinstate the nationwide emergency declaration on the border that he rescinded as quickly as he took workplace and declared ‘pointless,'” Melugin wrote. “3 years later, Biden himself says border isn’t safe, and his DHS secretary admits a ‘disaster’.”
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) slammed Biden for the put up and referred to as the president a liar, writing, “In your first day in workplace, you reversed President Trump’s insurance policies that secured our border. Individuals see proper via your lies, Joe.”
Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY) mentioned Biden was making an attempt to “rewrite historical past.”
“You reversed @realDonaldTrump’s insurance policies, creating this catastrophe Hardest border enforcement in historical past is HR2 – laws @HouseGOP despatched to Senate a 12 months in the past. Do not rewrite the story,” the congressman wrote. “That is the #BidenBorderCrisis. you. do not do Care.”
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Writer James Lindsay merely posted, “Ol’ Baloney Joe.”
After reversing Trump’s insurance policies three years in the past, Biden has pressed Congress to handle the border disaster, claiming it lacks the constitutional authority to take vital motion on unlawful immigration.
Home Republicans rejected a invoice launched within the Senate in February, with Republican management saying the laws “fails each precept essential to safe our border and can really encourage extra unlawful immigration.” Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) added that he “is not going to help a invoice that does not safe the border, offers taxpayer-funded attorneys for unlawful immigrants and provides billions to radical open border teams. I am a no.”
The Senate invoice was additionally opposed by Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, who referred to as it a “silly invoice.” Biden has criticized his Republican opponent for popping out towards the invoice, arguing that Trump is just doing so for political causes forward of the election.
“Unlawful aliens getting into our nation are taking up our cities and attacking our police,” Trump wrote in a Fact Social put up earlier this 12 months. “They’re constructing groups, and so they’re robust. Shut the border, you do not want a ridiculous border invoice that can enable 5000 individuals a day into our nation. Name it a ‘silly invoice’ and ensure it would not go. It will make issues a lot worse. CLOSE THE SOUTHERN BORDER, NO BILL NEEDED!!!”
