US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas assured on Sunday that over the past three years, the Joe Biden administration More illegal migrants were “returned or expelled” than in the four years of the previous government of Donald Trump (2017-2021).

This was stated by the head of the US Presidential Immigration Service in an interview with the publication. cnn that since May last year the United States deported “more people than in any year since 2015.”

However, the scale of the migration crisis on the US border with Mexico has led to arrival of more than 2.2 million migrants in 2023.

Review Wall Street Journal (WSJ), published Sunday, notes that More and more American voters are focusing their attention on immigration. a dangerous question for President Biden as he seeks re-election.

About 20% of respondents named the newspaper Immigration as the most important thing for your vote in this year’s presidential election. The second issue is economics.

Both Biden and his predecessor and possible challenger in the November election took to the border between the United States and Mexico last Thursday to point out that migration is the central axis of their respective campaigns.

During his speech in the city of Brownsville, which borders Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, Biden insisted Controversial bipartisan bill ‘needs’ to pass which includes restrictions on asylum rights at the border in exchange for Republican support for continued funding for Ukraine and Israel to defend them against Russia and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

Although the former Republican president repeated his usual xenophobic remarks about immigrants, ensuring that they “terrorists” and people from “prisons and psychiatric institutions.”

“They are allowed to enter our country. And it’s terrible.” Trump said, calling Biden “probably the most incompetent president in American history” and attempting to link the rise in border crossings to crime in the country.

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“When someone broke the law, we caught him and deported him. We did a great job. Then there were elections (…) and from that moment a lot of bad things began to happen. The situation has changed in Texas and everywhere else,” the Republican said.

(according to information from EFE)