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Trump hammers away on border crisis throughout debate with Biden

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“It’s a shame the damage he’s done to our country. I’d love to ask him … why he allowed millions of people to come in here from prisons, jails and mental institutions to come into our country and destroy our country”

Throughout the presidential debate Thursday night, former President Donald Trump continued to interject into his responses criticisms about President Joe Biden’s border policies.

When finishing one of his first answers to a question about the economy, Trump said the U.S. had become a third world country.

“It’s a shame the damage he’s done to our country. I’d love to ask him … why he allowed millions of people to come in here from prisons, jails and mental institutions to come into our country and destroy our country,” Trump said.

When answering a question about the national debt and in response to a comment Biden made about Medicare, Trump said Biden was “destroying Medicare because all of these people are coming in [through the border and the Biden administration is] putting them on Medicare, they’re putting them on Social Security. … This man is going to single handedly destroy Social Security. These millions and millions of people coming in they’re trying to put them on Social Security,” adding that Biden “will wipe out Social Security, he will wipe out Medicare” because of the border crisis. “What this man has done is absolutely criminal.”

In response to a question about abortion, Biden referred to “the young woman who just was murdered and he went to the funeral and the idea that she was murdered by an immigrant coming in … but here’s the deal, there’s a lot of women who are raped by their in-laws, by their spouses, by their brothers and sisters … and would get arrested for crossing state lines” to have an abortion. It is unclear who Biden was referring to regarding the murdered woman or who he claims attended her funeral.

In response to his comment, Trump said, “There have been many young women who have been raped by the same people he allows to come across our border. We have a border that’s the most dangerous place anywhere in the world … and he opened it up and these killers are coming into our country and they are raping and killing women. It’s a terrible thing.”

In response to a question about how the economy is hurting Black Americans, Trump said, Biden’s “big kill on the Black people is the millions of people that he’s allowed to come in through the border. They’re taking Black jobs now,” adding that the number of illegal border crossers could be “18, 19 even 20 million people. They’re taking Black jobs, and they’re taking Hispanic jobs. You haven’t seen it yet, but you’re going to see something that’s going to be the worst in our history.”

In response to a comment related to the cost of insulin and pharmaceutical drugs, Trump said, “I’m the one who got insulin down. I’m the one who took care of the seniors. What he’s doing is destroying all of our medical programs because the migrants coming in” are being enrolled in taxpayer funded programs. He said they are “destroying our country. They’re taking over our schools, our hospitals, and they’re going to be taking over Social Security. He is destroying Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.”

In response to efforts to keep Social Security solvent, Biden said increasing taxes on the wealthy would help and that Trump wanted to cut the program. He also said, “Americans have greater healthcare coverage today than they have ever had before.”

Trump repeated his claim multiple times that Biden “is destroying” Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid “because millions of people are pouring into our country” and the Biden administration is enrolling them into the programs and “putting them in our hospitals.” He said illegal foreign nationals were “taking the place of our citizens.” What the Biden administration is “doing to the VA, to our veterans, is unbelievable. Our veterans are living in the street and these people are living in luxury hotels. He doesn’t know what he’s doing. … I’ve never seen such anger in our country before.”

In response to Trump’s claims, Biden said, “the idea that we’re going to be in a situation where all of these millions and millions … of illegal aliens are coming into the country and taking away our jobs, there’s a reason why we have the fastest growing economy in the world … and we’re doing better than any other nation in the world,” suggesting that foreign labor was fueling the economy. Under current law, the majority of illegal foreign nationals are prohibited from gaining lawful employment. Depending on the parole program through which illegal foreign nationals were released, some are given two-year work permits. In April, the Biden administration increased automatic extensions for some employment authorizations.

​Dan McCaleb is the executive editor of The Center Square. He welcomes your comments. Contact Dan at [email protected].

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Court attempts to halt Trump deportations, El Salvador president says ‘too late’

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A class action lawsuit was filed on Saturday against the Trump administration after President Donald Trump signed an executive order invoking the Enemy Aliens Act to target, arrest and remove violent Venezuelan prison gang members, Tren de Aragua (TdA), from the U.S.

The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation on behalf of five Venezuelans illegally in the country who were detained in Texas and New York. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

On Saturday, nearly 300 violent illegal foreign nationals were removed from the U.S. and arrived in El Salvador with the cooperation of El Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele after reaching an agreement with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“The first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country,” Bukele said in a post on X. “They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).”

El Salvador also received 23 MS-13 gang members from the U.S. who were wanted by Salvadoran authorities, Bukele said. They include two ringleaders, one of whom “is a member of the criminal organization’s highest structure.” Those sent to El Salvador by the U.S. will help Bukele’s government “finalize intelligence gathering and go after the last remnants of MS-13, including its former and new members, money, weapons, drugs, hideouts, collaborators and sponsors.

“As always, we continue advancing in the fight against organized crime. But this time, we are also helping our allies, making our prison system self-sustainable, and obtaining vital intelligence to make our country an even safer place. All in a single action. May God bless El Salvador, and may God bless the United States,” he said.

The U.S. government is paying a small fee to detain them, Bukele said, and the prison is also making money because it requires inmates to work. These additional inmates, “combined with the production already being generated by more than 40,000 inmates engaged in various workshops and labor under the Zero Idleness program, will help make our prison system self-sustainable,” he said, noting that it costs $200 million a year to maintain.

In response, Rubio thanked Bukele saying, “El Salvador has agreed to hold the violent criminals “in their very good jails at a fair price that will also save our taxpayer dollars. President Nayib Bukele is not only the strongest security leader in our region, he’s also a great friend of the U.S.”

In an emergency hearing held on Saturday, a federal judge ruled that deportations of violent Venezuelans be temporarily halted and those who were illegally in the country and already removed be returned. The ACLU said the order blocked the administration “from deporting anyone under the Alien Enemies Act while the case proceeds. Flights carrying Venezuelan immigrants the DHS attempted to deport have been ordered to turn around and return to the U.S.”

A U.S. federal judge has no jurisdiction over foreign governments.

In response, Bukele posted on X, “Oopsie … Too late,” with a laughing emoji.

Bukele also posted videos and pictures of them arriving in El Salvador in handcuffs. The video shows them being met by El Salvadoran military wearing riot gear and transported in armored vehicles to CECOT. The videos depict El Salvadoran officials lifting up their shirts to show tattoos of gang member affiliation, officials shaving the heads of kneeling inmates and their admittance as CECOT inmates.

Cooperation between the U.S. and El Salvador expanded under Trump and Rubio, representing a reversal of Biden administration policy that used taxpayer money and planes to transport illegal foreign nationals into the U.S.

Trump has been aggressively targeting of TdA after a record more than 1 million Venezuelans illegally entered the U.S. under the Biden administration, including TdA members expanding operations in at least 22 states, The Center Square first reported.

Under the Trump administration, Venezuelan repatriation flights also began, paid for by the Venezuelan government, negotiated by the Trump administration, The Center Square reported.

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“The Invasion of our Country is OVER”: Trump reports lowest illegal crossings in history

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President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that illegal immigrant apprehensions at the southern border plummeted to just 8,326 in February—marking a historic low. In a Truth Social post, Trump declared, “The Invasion of our Country is OVER,” crediting his administration’s tough enforcement measures for the drastic reduction.

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  • The figure represents a staggering 96% drop from December 2023, when illegal crossings under Joe Biden’s administration peaked at 301,981.

  • Trump emphasized that those caught illegally entering the U.S. were “quickly ejected from our Nation or, when necessary, prosecuted for crimes against the United States of America.”

  • Trump credited executive action, including an emergency border declaration, military deployments, the end of birthright citizenship, and a crackdown on sanctuary cities, for the sharp decline in illegal entries.

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President Trump’s first full month back in office saw a seismic shift in border security policy, leading to what he called “the lowest number of illegal border crossings in decades.” In a Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump highlighted the stark contrast between his administration and Biden’s, stating:

“This means that very few people came – The Invasion of our Country is OVER. In comparison, under Joe Biden, there were 300,000 Illegals crossing in one month, and virtually ALL of them were released into our Country. Thanks to the Trump Administration Policies, the Border is CLOSED to all Illegal Immigrants.”

Upon taking office, Trump signed multiple executive orders that significantly curtailed illegal immigration. These include reinstating policies that allow expedited removals, deploying U.S. troops to the southern border, resuming construction of the border wall, and ending Biden-era programs that facilitated migrant entry through humanitarian parole. Additionally, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reversed previous Biden restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), leading to a sharp uptick in interior enforcement.

According to DHS data obtained by Fox News Digital, ICE interior arrests skyrocketed by 137% in just three weeks, with 11,791 arrests recorded from Jan. 20th to Feb. 8th—compared to 4,969 during the same period in 2024. High-profile raids in sanctuary cities have also yielded thousands of arrests, including gang members and violent offenders.

The economic impact of Trump’s border policies is already being felt. Federal funds that had been allocated to house illegal immigrants in hotels, particularly in cities like New York, are being clawed back. A recent executive order directed all federal agencies to identify and cut off taxpayer-funded programs that benefit illegal immigrants.

Despite congressional gridlock preventing any new border legislation, Trump’s administration has relied solely on executive authority to crack down on illegal immigration. His message to potential border crossers remains clear: “Anyone who tries to illegally enter the U.S.A. will face significant criminal penalties and immediate deportation.”

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