Trump receives support from Texas governor at event near border
- November 19, 2023
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Republican Donald Trump earned the support of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday at a rally near the U.S.-Mexico border, a site meant to highlight the former U.S.
Republican Donald Trump earned the support of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday at a rally near the U.S.-Mexico border, a site meant to highlight the former U.S. president’s plans to crack down on immigration if he wins the 2024 election.
Trump, the favorite to win the Republican nomination and challenge Democratic President Joe Biden next year, traveled to Edinburg, Texas, with Abbott to visit Texas National Guard soldiers, Texas Department of Public Safety troops and other military personnel stationed there.
Abbott said Biden’s border policies pose a danger to communities across the United States. He noted that Trump has managed to reduce border crossings to the lowest level in decades during his presidency.
“I am here to tell you that the United States cannot continue to have Joe Biden as our president. “We need a president who will secure the border,” Abbott said.
Trump said he was honored to receive Abbott’s support.
Photo: Reuters.
“It meant a lot to me,” Trump said. “You won’t have to worry about the border anymore, Governor (…), you won’t have to worry about the border in Texas or Arizona or anywhere else.”
Since Biden took office in 2021, U.S. border agents have made more than 5 million arrests of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally—not through a monitored border post. Migrants came from all over the world; Large numbers of people fled economic and political turmoil in Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
Trump has vowed to crack down on illegal immigration and limit legal immigration if elected next year. His plan includes a promise to restore his 2019 “remain in Mexico” program, which forced non-Mexican asylum seekers hoping to enter the United States at the Mexican border to wait in Mexico for their cases to be resolved.
Photo: Reuters.
The program was rescinded by Biden, who defeated Trump in 2020 by promising more humane and orderly immigration policies. But the country is struggling with a record number of migrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.
Abbott has emerged as a leading Republican figure on border issues, releasing his own border security initiative, Operation Lone Star, a controversial plan to stop migration that has put his state at odds with the Biden administration. (Reuters).
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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