2023-10-06 18:01:17
Donald Trump has reason to celebrate. He did not deprive himself of it when Joe Biden tried to convince that he had no other choice but to continue the construction of the anti-migrant wall undertaken by his predecessor on the Mexican border.
” I was right “triumphed Donald Trump on Truth Social, his micro-blogging network. “As I have often said, for thousands of years there are only two things that have worked: wheels and walls. » The favorite in the nomination race in the Republican camp has multiplied the arrows towards his rival. “Will Joe Biden apologize to me and America for taking so long to move? »
“I can’t stop this”
In 2021, Joe Biden mocked the border wall project, judging that it “was not a serious political solution”. Change of discourse, in 2023. “The money was allocated to the border walldid he declare. I can’t stop this. » During a conference given Thursday, October 5 at the White House, the 80-year-old American president put forward political and budgetary arguments to justify his about-face.
The new 32 kilometers of the wall in the Rio Grande Valley was announced in June, but its funding has been set in stone since 2019, and the Democrat’s attempts to reallocate that money have been met with refusal from Congress. It was therefore appropriate to spend this money before the envelope expired at the end of the year. Is Joe Biden convinced that walls can be effective? « Non », he replied laconically.
Contradictory discourses
This is not what his own Minister of Internal Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, claims. “There is currently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads near the United States border to prevent illegal entry,” he said in an official notice. Since the start of the year, more than 245,000 crossings have been recorded in the Rio Grande region alone. The new section of wall will therefore be added to the 724 kilometers of barriers built under the Trump era along the southeast border between 2017 and 2021.
The White House does not want to lend itself to lawsuits over laxity on the migration issue as the primaries approach. This same Thursday, October 5, Joe Biden decided to resume direct expulsions to Venezuela of illegal immigrants in conjunction with the authorities in Caracas. This choice applies to Venezuelans who entered the territory after July 31. That is, for the month of September alone, 50,000 people. Those who arrived before this date, on the other hand, benefited from a wave of regularizations representing 500,000 temporary visas. A gesture condemned by the Republican opposition, which sees it as encouragement for other candidates for exile.
“Cities invaded”
Joe Biden wants to show that he understands the risk of a break in public opinion. “The American people are tired of seeing cities invaded”, accuses Ralph Norman, a Republican from North Carolina elected to the House of Representatives. By the admission of the Democratic mayor of New York, Eric Adams, the 100,000 arrivals in the city since last year should represent a cost of 12 billion dollars (11.3 billion euros) in accommodation in the three coming years.
The President of the United States takes blows in his own camp. The very left-wing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not hesitate to talk about “cruel policy”urging President Biden to do “reverse”. In Starr County (Texas), where the new section of wall must emerge, the Democrats are hardly more convinced. “I am still against a 14th century solution called “the wall” to a 21st century problemjudge deputy Henry Cuellar. I want to see more staff, more technology. » A position that Joe Biden held… before giving it up.
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