2023-11-20 03:11:50
A smiling Donald Trump, serving their snack to Texan police officers. Campaigning for the 2024 American presidential election, the former president went to the border with Mexico, in Texas, on Sunday, displaying his very firm positions against immigration.
In recent weeks, the former president has taken his campaign rhetoric to extreme levels of aggression, calling illegal migrants “poisoning the blood of our country” and comparing his political opponents to “vermin.”
Less than two months before the first primary elections and despite the legal proceedings launched against him, Donald Trump is still the big favorite in the polls in the Republican camp.
In a state which has not placed a Democratic candidate in the lead in the presidential election since 1976, the Republican billionaire went to distribute food to the security forces that Texas has mobilized to try to curb the passage of illegal migrants at the border .
???? BREAKING: Donald Trump serves meals to Texas National Guard, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers who are protecting the border
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 19, 2023
He was accompanied by Republican Governor Greg Abbot, who is preparing to sign a measure approved by the Texas legislature and planning to make the illegal entry of migrants a crime under local law. The text will give state authorities the power to arrest them and deport them to Mexico.
In the United States, this power is federal, which has led many critics, including civil rights associations, to consider it unconstitutional.
But for Governor Abbott, “these provisions give Texas new tools to combat illegal border crossings. “Texas continues to hold the course amid President Joe Biden’s border crisis.”
Biden accused of turning a blind eye
Like Donald Trump, he accuses the current president 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. And like him, Greg Abbott is in favor of building a wall along the border.
In Mexico, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently expressed its “rejection of anti-immigration measures” from Texas, which will lead to “family separation, discrimination and racial checks”.
President Biden, for his part, spoke at the end of the week with his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific economic cooperation forum, to discuss in particular “historic levels” of migratory flows.
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