Posted on 03/24/2021 7:17:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Joe Biden on Wednesday said the current surge of illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border started under the Trump administration.
“This new surge we are dealing with now started with the last administration, but it’s our responsibility to deal with it humanely,” Biden said as he met with Vice President Kamala Harris, chief of staff Ron Klain, and other advisers in the White House. He did not elaborate.
“There was a serious spike in people heading to the southern border even in the midst of that [the Trump administration]. That was because there were serious natural disasters” in Latin America and the Caribbean, Biden said.
Other senior administration officials, including Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, have blamed the previous administration’s policies for the surge and the conditions along the border.
Republicans are sure to disagree with Biden’s assertion on Wednesday, as a number of GOP members of Congress in recent days have blamed Biden for the surge in illegal immigrants. They have pointed to Biden having rescinded a number of Trump-era policies such as the “Remain in Mexico” order and construction of the southern border wall. Meanwhile, rhetoric from Biden and other Democrats about creating a pathway for 11 million illegal aliens is triggering the spike in people trying to cross the border, Republicans have said.
And some Democrats in districts along the border have sounded the alarm about numerous Border Patrol encounters with unaccompanied children in their districts.
“The administration is doing the right thing because the law requires that we process unaccompanied minors,” Rep. Filemon Vela (D-Texas) said in a statement Wednesday. “However, we are in the middle of a pandemic and our systems are being overwhelmed.”
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What a load of bovine excrement.
The unmitigated gall of a Democrat.
Horse hillary
Perhaps December of last year. The entire world...including the Third World cesspools to our south...knew that Plugs would open the doors. They knew it because he had specifically stated as much in 2019.
Answer: Hell no, he’s just Democratic.
Well if the senile corrupt Manchurian plag1arist who was inserted into the WH through massive voter fraud says it then it must be true.
“... furthermore,” said Biden, “Water is dry. And two plus two is ninty-seven. And rain falls up.”
This is the Gaslight Administration.
Biden has always been a shameless liar. He is now a senile, corrupt, election stealing shameless liar.
bidet is a dog faced liar.
I think that fall hit him in the head...again.
Yawn. Typical Lazy assed Liberals always blame Republicans.
similar to obammy - sleepy joe xiden blames others and deflects.
Stinking Communist Propaganda Alert!
We live in an age of lies.
Cute. It began the Biden was elected on November 6. They were waiting for it and the caravans started up on that day. Trump was still President and he could do nothing about Biden messaging them that they would be released into the general US public. Had zero to do with natural disasters. If Biden was not elected, there would be no border crisis today, period.
Just like when he said that the vaccine wasn’t in place until after he took office, even though he had personally received not one, but *both* doses of his vaccine well before the day of his inauguration.
The media of course did not correct or challenge him on this assertion.
If he means after Biden was declared the “winner,” while Trump was still POTUS, then yes, people probably started on their way here... It still was the fault of Biden & the Democrat Party for telling the World the borders were soon to be erased.
I didn’t take the cookies, Johnny did. Pretty juvenile tactic Biden Administration.
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