Former presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke on Sunday rebuked former President Donald Trump, claiming that El Paso, Texas, is one of the safest cities in the nation because it is an “immigrant city.”
“My hometown of El Paso, Texas, is consistently one of the safest cities in America, if not the safest city in America,” O’Rourke said on MSNBC’s “Inside With.” He spoke during a guest appearance on Jen Psaki.
“And that’s not despite the fact that we’re a city of immigrants. I would argue that it’s because we are a city of immigrants.”
Ann Analysis of the end of last year A MoneyGeek article ranks El Paso as the 5th safest city in the United States.
The comments came after President Trump visited El Paso last week while President Joe Biden made a personal visit to the border in Brownsville, about 525 miles away.
President Trump has slammed the border crisis, likening the ordeal to a “war,” harping on the flood of migrants crossing the border and shifting blame onto the Biden administration.
“This is Biden’s invasion over the last three years,” Trump said. “I call him Crooked Joe because he’s crooked. He’s a terrible president, the worst president in the history of our country.”
O’Rourke, who represented Texas’ 16th Congressional District, which includes much of El Paso, from 2013 to 2019, argued that immigrants are central to America’s success.
“We are a nation of immigrants. We are the strongest, most successful place on earth. And that has a lot to do with people coming here from all over the world to better themselves.” ,” O’Rourke said.
“If we are to remain the most successful nation on earth, we need more immigrants.”
Critics of Biden’s border policies say the influx of illegal immigrants and asylum-seeking migrants is overburdening U.S. government agencies.
There were an estimated 176,205 encounters with migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in January, down from a record high of 301,983 in December. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection numbers.
O’Rourke accused President Trump of destroying a bipartisan Senate agreement on the border as a political ploy.
The lone Democrat made a name for himself in 2018 when he challenged Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and came within striking distance. He then unsuccessfully ran for president in 2020.
Mr. O’Rourke recently criticized Mr. Biden, his primary Democratic opponent in 2020, over his handling of the war in Israel. appears to be expressing support For the “Non-Commitment” campaign in Michigan ahead of the Feb. 27 primary.
More than 100,000 people, or one in eight voters, “didn’t vote” in the primary election, reaching a climax in the state’s Arab and Muslim protests.
Michigan has the largest Arab community of any state in the country.
