The former director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) claims the current situation at the border is the worst he’s ever seen and is working to make the border crisis a central issue in the 2024 election.
“In my nearly 35 years of service under both Democratic and Republican administrations, I’ve never seen conditions this bad,” said the former police officer and Border Patrol agent who worked for ICE from 2017 to 2018 under the former president. Tom Homan, the acting commissioner, said: Donald Trump told FOX News Digital. “But fortunately, we know how to solve it. If we can make 2024 a border security election and come together and do very specific things, we can close this border in 120 days. We can close it down.”
The comments came as Homan and others launched BORDERS911, Inc., a 501(c)(4) advocacy group that aims to make the border issue the defining issue of 2024. At the heart of this effort is a pledge, which the group hopes will help. Obtain signatures from both voters and candidates to advance policy promises such as ending catch-and-release, eliminating asylum fraud, reforming legal immigration processes, and reinstating President Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy. There is a need.
The new organization will also be led by former DEA special operations chief Derek Maltz.
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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during the caucus night rally in Las Vegas, Thursday, February 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill))
“We are facing a crisis that could destroy our country, and this pledge will be an important tool to focus the debate.The public needs to be involved now more than ever, and candidates need to “We have to make our commitments concretely and decisively. The era of empty promises has arrived. And the political game is over,” Martz told Fox News Digital. “Mexican cartels have forged strong partnerships with Chinese criminal networks to flood the country with historic amounts of deadly fentanyl. America is currently facing the worst drug crisis in its history. I’ve never seen so many people in my 28 years of living.” DEA carriers are dying from these toxic chemicals. ”
Commitment to this pledge comes at a time when border security and immigration are already certain to be major concerns among voters in the next election, with both Republicans and Democrats better suited to address the crisis. This was done in an attempt to establish a strong position.
A Politico report on Wednesday said President Biden is considering several new executive actions and federal regulations to stem the flow of migrants at the southern border. According to the report, some ideas the administration has floated include barring immigrants from seeking asylum between U.S. ports of entry, and that the administration would only enforce such a policy after a certain period of time. It points out that there is a possibility that the government may try to add to the trigger that goes into effect. Illegal crossings are occurring frequently.
President Joe Biden walks along the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, on January 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Other ideas include making it harder for immigrants to meet a “credible fear standard” used to screen potential asylum seekers and deporting those who don’t meet the new standards more quickly. This includes how to do so.
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The proposal comes after a bipartisan border deal failed in the Senate, a point the administration and Democrats are trying to make as voters express concerns about the situation in the coming months. .
“The administration spent months negotiating in good faith to deliver the toughest, fairest, bipartisan border security bill in decades, securing our borders and a broken immigration system,” a White House spokesperson said. We’re asking Congress to make significant policy reforms and provide additional funding to fix this.” According to Politico, Angelo Fernández Hernández said of the bill’s failure:
President Joe Biden. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
But BORDER911, also led by former Texas Department of Public Safety Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division Chief Jason Jones, investigative journalist Sarah Carter, former Border Patrol Chief Rodney S. Scott, and former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan, He argued this. The Biden administration also shares much of the blame for the current crisis, with its pledge stating that border security has been “systematically dismantled” by the administration and that the administration has “lost operational control of the border.” There is.
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“Communities and families are devastated every day as cartels take full advantage of reckless border policies.Sadly, cartels have also conducted the largest human and sex trafficking operation in history, with dozens of We’re making billions of dollars,” Maltz said. “It’s time for all of us to take courage and understand how our country is under attack from dangerous criminals, and to recognize that without border security, we cannot survive.”
The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
