(Edinburg) Former American President Donald Trump, in the campaign to retake the White House in 2024, hammered home his speech against immigration on Sunday in Edinburg (Texas), during a visit to the border with Mexico, where he recorded the expected support of the conservative governor of this state Greg Abbott in view of the presidential election.
“We had the most secure border in history,” he said, referring to the end of his mandate in January 2021. “Now we have the least secure border in the history of the world” , he added, referring to “a flood of millions and millions of people pouring” into the United States under his Democratic successor Joe Biden.
Donald Trump was speaking after participating in a food distribution to members of the security forces mobilized by Texas to try to stem the passage of irregular migrants, in the presence of the Republican governor, who on this occasion gave his support to his candidacy .
In recent weeks, the favorite in the Republican primaries, the first of which begins in less than two months, has taken his campaign rhetoric to extreme levels of aggression, judging that irregular migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” and comparing his political opponents to “vermin”.
Greg Abbott is a fervent supporter of the construction of a “wall” on the border with Mexico, the former president’s flagship project, on which the Biden administration said in October it was legally required to resume work, failing to successfully reallocate the funds planned for this work.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
MM. Trump and Abbott accuse Joe Biden of turning a blind eye to illegal immigration at the southern border, mainly made up of nationals from Latin American countries who say they are fleeing poverty and violence.
Mexico’s Foreign Ministry recently expressed its “rejection of Texas’ anti-immigration measures,” which will result in “family separation, discrimination and racial checks.”
President Biden spoke at the end of the week with his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum, to discuss in particular “historic levels” of migratory flows.
In reaction to Greg Abbott’s support for Donald Trump with a view to 2024, the Democratic Party authorities assured Sunday in a press release that the latter had found in Abbott “another disciple of his extremist plans to ban abortion nationally , lead a catastrophic migration policy and make our neighborhoods less safe by flooding them with guns.”