President Biden Republicans are trying to make immigration a central election issue in November, and President Trump signed an executive order this week to tighten restrictions on border crossings.
“I’m here today to do what Republicans in Congress refuse to do: take the steps necessary to secure our border,” Biden said in a White House speech surrounded by Democratic lawmakers. Signing ceremony.
a Gallup Poll, February The number of people who said immigration is the most important issue facing the nation has increased dramatically from 20% of those surveyed just a month ago to 28%.
Biden’s rival in this year’s White House election President Trumphas been a sharp critic of Democrats on the issue of border security.
But the president’s move, which is largely identical to bipartisan legislation that has repeatedly failed to pass, has not received much praise from conservatives and threatens to split Democrats on the sensitive issue.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) Rep. Gregory dismissed the order as a “sham.”
“We all know that if he was concerned about the border he would have done this a long time ago,” Johnson told reporters.
Governor of Texas Greg Abbott Former Vice President Joe Biden, a Republican who has been a vocal advocate for more measures at the border, even going so far as to send in his own enforcement agents to crack down on border crossings, called the order “nothing more than a smokescreen.”
The bipartisan border bill was seen as a way to ease the pressure on vulnerable Democrats in battleground states by voting for tougher restrictions.
But Republicans are not the only ones questioning President Biden’s intervention with executive orders. Some Democrats have also tried to distance themselves from the orders, accusing President Biden of caving in to Republican demands.
Representative Ilhan Omar A Democratic congressman from Mississippi, who came to the US as a refugee, said he was “deeply disappointed” by Biden’s “brutal” order.
“Biden sent a signal to the world that he will turn his back on people suffering from global catastrophe in order to appease the far-right, who will never be satisfied,” she said in a statement.
