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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 Shoots Down Biden Admin’s Mass Amnesty Order For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Illegal Migrants

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By Jason Hopkins

The Biden-Harris administration suffered a major defeat in federal court on Thursday amid its fight to provide amnesty for up to half a million illegal migrants living in the United States.

President Joe Biden’s executive order that attempted to provide a pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants married to American citizens is unlawful, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas ruled on Thursday. Biden’s order, which was first announced over the summer, was challenged by the Texas attorney general and a slate of other GOP-led states.

“Since day one, the Biden-Harris Administration has dedicated itself to the decimation of our immigration system and the erasure of our borders,” stated Gene Hamilton, the executive director of America First Legal, a conservative organization that led the court challenge against the order. “Time and again, the states stood up.

“And today, the great State of Texas and the courageous Ken Paxton, alongside a coalition of other brave Attorneys General, succeeded in stopping an illegal program that would have provided amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens and paved the path for the largest administrative amnesty in American history,” Hamilton continued. “We are proud to stand alongside these patriots in defense of our great nation.”

Biden first unveiled the executive order in June during a White House event commemorating the 12-year anniversary of the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the last major amnesty program initiated by the federal government. The order — dubbed the Keeping Families Together program — allowed illegal migrant spouses of U.S. citizens to apply for lawful permanent residence without having to leave the country first, according to a fact sheet of the plan released by the administration.

Under current law, illegal immigrants can apply for legal status after they have married a U.S. citizen, but they are required to leave the country in order to move forward with the process. However, Biden’s order attempted to expand a statutory authority known as “parole-in-place”, allowing those noncitizens to wait out the application process while remaining in the country.

Illegal migrants approved for the program would not only be given lawful permanent residence and work permits, but also a pathway to citizenship, according to the plan. The White House expected the order to affect as many as half a million illegal migrants, but America First Legal placed that estimate at more than one million illegal immigrants.

America First Legal partnered with Texas and Idaho, along with a coalition of 14 state attorneys general in August to sue the Biden-Harris administration to block the amnesty order. Later that month, the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas put a pause on the program, but Biden had vowed to keep fighting.

On Thursday, the court ultimately ruled that the Department of Homeland Security lacked statutory authority to carry out the order.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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‘The End Of My Dream’: Many Migrants In US-Bound Caravan Lose Hope, Turn Around After Trump Victory

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The president-elect won roughly 45% of the Latino vote, marking a dramatic increase from the 32% Latino support he garnered in the 2020 presidential election, according to USA Today. He also won Latino men outright, making him the first Republican presidential candidate to do so in U.S. history.

Many migrants have lost hope of illegally crossing into the United States and have decided to turn around after hearing that Republican nominee Donald Trump won the presidential election, according to multiple reports.

A migrant caravan heading for the U.S.-Mexico border has shrunk to roughly half its size as members accepted the fact that Trump would be re-taking the reins at the White House, according to a report from Reuters. An official from Mexico’s National Migration Institute told the outlet that the caravan dwindled to under 1,600 migrants, a sharp drop from its original size of 3,000 when it embarked on its northward journey on Tuesday in the southern Mexican city of Tapachula.

The official added that more than 100 individuals had asked for assistance from authorities on returning to Tapachula, but it’s not entirely clear where the rest of the caravan deserters are headed.

“I had hoped [Vice President Kamala Harris] would win, but that didn’t happen,” said Venezuelan migrant Valerie Andrade, according to Reuters.

Other migrants expressed hopelessness at Trump’s election victory, and even disdain at the historic levels of Latino support the Republican amassed in his landslide win.

“This is the end of my dream of getting out of Cuba,” said Felipe, a Cuban migrant, according to  Newsweek.

“They forgot about when they were on the other side,” Mahily Paz, another Venezuelan migrant, said about Latinos who voted for Trump, according to Newsweek. The statement erroneously suggests that most or all Latino Americans are a product of illegal immigration.

Trump emerged victorious early Wednesday morning in the U.S. presidential election, securing more than the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House. As of Thursday, the president-elect has also remained ahead in the popular vote count, making him the first Republican candidate to win the popular vote since former President George W. Bush was reelected in 2004.

Trump, who made border enforcement a hallmark of his first presidential term, has promised a return to a hawkish immigration policy. The president-elect has vowed to conduct the “largest deportation operation in American history,” a completion of the U.S.-Mexico border wall and a slate of other crackdowns.

While Harris attempted to rebrand herself as more of a hawk on border security on the campaign trail, she could not shake off the perception from voters and would-be illegal migrants that she was the weaker candidate when it came to immigration enforcement.

Trump’s landslide victory on Election Day was driven in large part by growing Latino support, exit polls revealed.

The president-elect won roughly 45% of the Latino vote, marking a dramatic increase from the 32% Latino support he garnered in the 2020 presidential election, according to USA Today. He also won Latino men outright, making him the first Republican presidential candidate to do so in U.S. history.

As of Thursday afternoon, Trump had so far amassed 295 electoral votes and nearly 73 million votes from American citizens.

While many migrants expressed their dismay at the election outcome and chose to turn around, others have chosen to keep gunning for the U.S. border.

“With God’s favor, I’ll get that appointment,” a Venezuelan migrant named Jeilimar said to Reuters, speaking about her appointment to request asylum with U.S. immigration officials via the CBP One app.

Biden administration officials and other immigration workers are bracing for the possibility that Trump’s election victory will spark a rush at the border before he takes office in January, with migrants hoping to make it into the U.S. before an expected border crackdown begins.

 

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