Former US President Donald Trump This Thursday he asked his successor: Joe Bidento apologize for taking “so long” to strengthen the wall on the border with Mexico.

Trump said so on his social network Truth Social after last Wednesday. Biden will order border wall strengthening with Mexico in one of the areas where illegal migrant crossings are most often reported.

“Will Joe Biden apologize to me and the United States for it takes so long to get ready and allow our country to be flooded with 15 million illegal immigrants from unknown places? “I will wait for your apology!” – Trump wrote on his social network.

In fact, since Biden arrived in the White House in 2021, 3.8 million immigrants arrived in the United States. Of those, 2.3 million have applied for asylum, according to Syracuse University, which collects Customs and Border Protection (CBP) information.

During the 2020 campaign, Biden promised to stop building a wall with Mexico, and shortly after arriving at the White House in January 2021 took charge of checking resources took on this work earlier so that more funds would be allocated.

However, last Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security published a notice in the Federal Register, the official journal in which regulations are distributed, saying that construction of the wall had to be resumed “immediately” in areas of the Rio Bravo Valley, one of the areas where the largest number of crossings have been reported.

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For construction work, the Department of Homeland Security will exempt from compliance with more than twenty rules protecting the environment, public health and cultural preservation.

When asked about it this Thursday, Biden confirmed that he does not believe in the effectiveness of the wallbut argued that Congress is now forcing him to spend money that was approved for the wall in 2019, while Trump was still in office.

According to the White House, the administration has repeatedly asked Congress allocate these funds for the wall on other points, but the Legislative Assembly refused.

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Congressional control currently divided with Democrats in power in the Senate and Republicans holding a majority in the Lower House.

Immigration will be a critical issue in the 2024 presidential election, where Biden is seeking re-election and could again face Trump, who starts as favorite in his party’s primaries ultimately become the Republican nominee. (EFE)